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at the Town Hall 101 Main Street Ashland the purpose of the public hearing is to consider the percentages percentage percentages of the FY 2025 tax levy to be borne by each class of taxable real and property and personal property meeting information will be posted on the agenda which could be found on the town website www.mass.com person persons wishing to be heard on this matter are invited to attend the public Hearing in person or by logging into the zoom meeting interested parties who are unable to attend the hearing May submit written comments to the select board's office Town Hall 101 Main Street ashin mass 01721 or by emailing Susan Roby sroy Asin mass.com so um could I get a motion to open the um the hearing second all those in favor of opening the hearing i i i does it have to be U an individual nope because we're all here so yeah I think we have to do a roll call if um anyone is remote from our board okay so um so with that I'm going to pass that on over to Michael to introduce um yeah Nate uh yeah this is a new era folks um because I think everybody at this table um we we have all um the only person we've ever seen give this presentation is Rich ball um and of course Rich retired earlier this year but uh we're very very fortunate to have um working with us Nate Kramer um an experienced assessor who's been uh working with us since uh Rich retired until we uh found a permanent replacement for Rich um and uh Nate I've just been really really impressed with his uh his knowledge base he's probably he's going to have a different presentation than what you're used to and with a couple new couple of new uh things for the uh for the board's information and um yeah I think again we're really really fortunate to have somebody of his caliber as well as really want to take the moment to uh thank the board of assessors I think everybody's here David's here Steve's online Chuck's hiding yeah there he is um as well as as June and Terry down in the office for for stepping up during this time so um Nate without further Ado I I hope I didn't talk you up too much so probably did okay well you've got got a lot to live up to now my friend um so one thing I noticed uh the presentation that you guys had up I'm not sure are there still yellow highlights on that presentation um the one I have in our packet does still have yellow highlights okay so those have since been removed I just sent I I realized that when I logged in and saw it that oh no they they don't have the the one without the highlights but nothing really changed um Nate are you able to are you able to share your screen so it can I can yep I can okay um basically it's it's it's almost exactly the same just um uh no highlights oh it says oh send request for sharing yeah we're working on that right now Nate why don't you introduce yourself a little bit Nate okay um for while we're waiting for that uh Nate my name is Nate Kramer I'm the owner of Municipal Finance Services LLC um I've been in the business for quite a while now um I was a still am an appraiser for 15 years before going to work for the Department of Revenue auditing tax assessors um I was there for six years and then um went to work for a private company um that City and towns outsourced their assessing offices to and then um went to work um for a couple different cities and towns and now I own um this company um we saw we just saw a need um the assessing profession is just it's every time somebody retires there's nobody to replace that person yeah um and I think when I started this in January of 21 there were I think 17 openings um and no applicants um and that TR kind of continues so um I'm happy to provide these Services as needed to different cities and towns when when these situations happen and also you know help them help them find a qualified person and also just hold the hand of a person if they think they have someone that might be good that might NE not necessarily be up to speed on everything so um um so with Ashland um rich Ball retiring I Didn't Know Rich I I know many many assessors I Didn't Know Rich but I heard about him heard he was a great guy um but Ashlin just like every other community that loses an assessor it's not a fast process it's very rare to get somebody right away yeah Nate if you don't mind I'm just because I think we're working on some technical issues but just to kind of interject here what Nate is saying it's actually starting to get to crisis levels um there just are not assessors um enough assessors to to do the jobs and Nate we were just talking I think western Mass which depends on like a company to do um like Franklin County or I'm certain like through furog I mean that firm said that they were no longer going to be doing that for those communities I mean it is Crisis level so nobody wants to do the municipal work anymore so I think I think a big part of it is that a lot of these a lot of people that are retiring came in started their careers right around the time prop two and a half happened um or um yeah prop two and like in the early 80s um and obviously nobody grows up saying I want to be an assessor um so you know all all everyone just you know did their typical Municipal 35 40y year career and nobody very few people were coming up behind them um and and it's not just it's not just Municipal assessors but it's a lot of the contractors too um companies are selling people are retiring and I think it's just going to get worse and worse I know of okay one company um that's closing up at the end of this year and they have 55 communities and yeah nowhere to go because the people that are still there are just stretched too thin so um another reason I put my hat in the ring well well welcome we're happy you're here I think we are all set with the technology so I think you can probably share your screen with the presentation hopefully this can you see that yes okay yep and this is the one okay yeah I know if you can make it a little bit bigger I don't know if that's you or if that's us green right now um oh wait there we go except it showed up on a different screen if it's if it's causing issues we have we all have it in front of us too so um okay well why don't we just use the one you have and the changes that are there it's l almost literally just some things are highlighted in the one you have and they're not highlighted in mind they were just numbers I wanted to confirm before I presented but very little Chang and if um if anything did change you know what I'll just say the number so if anything did change or if you have a page that's highlighted um just let me know and I'll confirm whether or not it changed okay perfect all right so I'm G I'm gonna not I'm gonna stop sharing then no we want you to share we definitely want we definitely want you to share because so um also folks that are watching um because we have people that are logged on in the zoom they'll be able to see the presentation as well so we definitely want you to have the presentation oh that's even that's perfect that's awesome all right we are we are in business go go right ahead let me just make sure that changes when did that did that um it's still good it's good is it changing when I change it I don't see a change we still see the top page yeah try the arrows maybe yeah I'm changing it on my screen though that's the thing sorry about that so now now now it's now we're good so now we're at what is the purpose of this presentation that's what we see all right now I just have to figure out how there we go okay now I got it all right so I'm just controlling it from a different screen technology okay so welcome this is town of ashin fiscal 25 tax classification presentation um the this presentation is going to be a little bit different than what you're used to um from what I understand in the past all you um were asked to decide on was whether or not to select a single tax rate or a split tax rate um but these are the four things that are supposed to be voted on on classification hearings now I don't I don't expect um there there shouldn't be anything different so I would think that um none of the answers will be different nothing that wasn't done in the past will affect anything um this is just how it's supposed to be done and as I go through it I'll um uh I'll explain anything that you want explained um so um the purpose of the presentation is to select their single or split tax rate um whether or not to adopt an open space discount whether to adopt a residential exemption and whether to adopt a small commercial exemption um and if you have any questions on what these are um like I said in the past you've only done single or split tax rate um I think you've only ever done a single or split or a single rate um and you've never um adopted any of the other three so it's easy to just say no to those if there's anything you guys want to explore um it's too late in the game to do that this year um so we but if it's something you want to explore for next year um I can certainly do studies and and show you what those numbers look like [Music] um so before um I get into numbers and everybody's eyes glaze over um I just like to explain what's happening in the market um despite High interest rates there's still high demand um High interest rates are contributing to low inventory because nobody wants to move and give up their low interest rates um although rates now are starting to um to come down these fiscal 25 values are based on sales that occurred in 2023 so at that point they were uh in the mid to uper sevens in many cases um as shown on Slide Five sale prices seem to be stabilizing as we progress through calendar year 24 and commercial industrial segments have been stabilizing and even seeing decreases over the past couple of years um this is a comparison of full and fair cash value for fiscal 24 versus fiscal 25 uh so the residential and open space segments um are seeing a 6.1% increase um commercial industrial and personal property are only going up 2.7% um as noted because those those segments have just been struggling uh over the past couple years um and this these these other two lines here just show the makeup for the town so uh for fiscal 25 91.6 of the town 91.6% of the town is residential and 88.4% is commercial um uh so it's a you know compared it's pretty stable from last year and then this uh total value the last line is just showing an overall increase for the whole town of 5.9% which is probably much lower than you've seen the past couple years I'm assuming um this is Slide Five and it's just this is just single family data that I got off of MLS um and it just shows what the Market's done over the past five years now the this is these are market sales whether or not they're arms transactions or not this is just every single family sale that's happened um that's that's been uh listed on MLS by Brokers over the past five years um so you can see from 20 to 21 to 22 to 23 that's just significant increases um in moving through 24 so this calendar year 24 will be for fiscal 26 value so we're seeing the residential value stabilize also are those is that the average price these are average um uh this is average list price in the Top Line okay and this is sale price on the bottom line so last year for so for calendar year 23 that year is done obviously so the so the average sale price of a single family house in Ashland in 2023 was 769 where now we're mostly all the way through um 2024 I believe I grabbed this snapshot sometime in October um and you can see there's a slight drop I don't anticipate there being record sales in the past in the last two months it's it tends to be kind of slow after once school starts and the holidays are coming um I would expect those numbers to pretty much remain the same if if Nate if you don't mind if I could just interject here as well Brandy um not at all so one thing I just really wanted the board to note um just what he has there at the top so you know how I've said like you know usually there's a couple year lag time between you know what the what you see in terms ter of the the sales prices and what when that gets reflected in the assessed values so Nate's just kind of confirming that you know those FY 25 values um are going to be based on the 23 sales and um the ones that you see for 24 we'll start seeing those in the uh tax year for 26 thanks Nate sorry no problem and and I like just to just to piggyback on that I'd like to include this MLS data because because this is showing actual sales not assess values um and I think that's important when you're setting the values is in terms of assess values um just to make sure you're not uh disjointed um which can happen um if you look at anything long enough it starts to make sense so um we wouldn't expect our average assess values for fiscal 25 to be you know 900,000 if the market is showing the average single family sale was 769 so I I like to add that in just show that the assess values are consistent with um with with actual sales um and in Massachusetts uh we're required to be at 100% of market value uh typically we run at a median of 95 because if we if we we work with median so if we had a median of 100% that would mean half the town is valued over 100% so we run it at 95 um which kind of with the hopes that it kind of Maxes the town out at 100 rather than having half the town overvalued is this um is this broken out anywhere by um the the house the uh price range of the houses like were there significantly more houses valued at 650 and above versus 400 to 600 things like that that that are included I don't have that in in this screenshot um and the tool that I use to generate this report doesn't do that but um I am able to get an Excel extract from the MLS to do that for sales and also compare it to assess values I think that if if someone yeah yeah the other thing is these are average sales and we work with median so so there is a slight differential there but um but they're typically pretty close um so this um these are the average values for fiscal 23 versus fiscal 24 um the average single family value um uh for fiscal 24 was 674 799 and the average value for in 2025 is 720 281 um and if we go back to that slide you can see the average Market sale was 769 so the average assessed single family value is at 720 it's about what we would expect to see slightly below that 100% Mark um the the uh projected tax rate right now is $111.99 which is over a dollar decrease um which also equates to a decrease in um the average single family house uh uh tax bill but this number could change slightly based on on uh numbers that are entered after this presentation I'm not sure if Britney um the finance director has all of our numbers in yet or how that will uh play into where the tax rate goes um but if it does change it's typically uh in a in a matter of sense not not dollars so you know you might see $125 or something like that um and this is where the commercial industrial and personal property values fall uh fiscal 24 versus fiscal 25 so you can just see it's just a slight increase um and I should add this is just commercial industrial real estate it does not include the personal property and the reason I don't include personal property is because the 504 which are utility values um which are very large values versus the mom and pop type businesses which T often have very small values can really tweaked this number so I just I just leave them out um and here is um this shows what a shift would look like if the town should at any point decide they want to shift it doesn't look like as far back as I can see they never have um which keeps things very simple and I think [Music] um is is not a bad idea in a town like Ashlin that's you you know almost 92% residential um to shift it would put more of the burden on the commercial industrial properties and probably uh have an effect on new development in terms of commercial industrial and whether or not people um so I I highlighted this in bul um assuming that that's what the town would vote on because that's what they've always voted on um as seen here back to 2021 it's just always been a one which is which is no shift um this is a comparison of surrounding communities and where they are um you have a few around you so Ash that are that also do not shift so Ashland Hopkinson Holliston and Southboro also do not shift um it looks like Ashland is close to the bottom um in terms of the neighboring communities I think only Framingham has a lower average single family tax bill um and then significant increases once you get to hopkington Holliston and uh Southboro and the last line here is just the state average um so this includes you know Boston all the way out to hancok every single in every single City and town in the state um you know there are towns out there that have I think gnal has a $2 tax rate um but but um places like West Springfield they their residential rate might be in the 20s they they tend to be a lot higher out there but this is just an overall average for the state um and this is just a breakdown of of um what the maximum allowable Levy is for fiscal 25 in Ashland the levy limit for 24 um uh you add the two and a half percent which is what um uh prop two and a half allows you to do and then you add in any new growth so New Growth would be um any new value that hasn't been taxed before so a new house a new building um you know maybe something was exempt before that became taxable um and this is what it is for fiscal 25 so this is new money um this 326 585 and that's pretty consistent with what I've seen in the past I I went back a few years um to see where it's been and it's it's pretty consistent um I think next year with the uh as as the development at 90 to 100 Chestnut Street um progresses I would imagine next year's number is going to be significantly higher here um so the fiscal 24 Levy limit uh the debt exclusion which I'm not sure what that is I just saw it on Gateway um and then here at the bottom is the maximum allowable Levy for fiscal 25 um and then that's it um and like I said these are just the four things that that the town needs to um decide on um so typically they would ose a shift one and in history um they have selected no on all of these other options and I I'm happy to explain what these are um if you'd like okay great thank you so much Nate um I appreciate the presentation and um so just a couple of things that that I was um just wanting to confirm so for the um you know the communities that you had presented and you know the the the um you know out of all the communities only Framingham is the one that that that shifts um and that's that's because of the um amount of commercial that Framingham has in comparison to towns like Ashland and Southboro and Holliston correct I would imagine so so most most larger communities do shift um and yes the purpose of that is to take some of the burden off of the residential taxpayers when they have a large commercial base yeah if I remember correctly from years past um I think Rich used to say that you know communities that have less than 15% commercial tend not to to shift because basically the um the the increased burden that that gets shifted to to um to commercial is not kind of commerate with what what the um the offset would be to residential correct so um so just that and that's that's generally what you what you what your opinion is as well yes crazy things happen um you know there are towns that have more residential than Ashlin that have tried it it just doesn't go over well especially when a large portion of the uh com the commercial makeup is probably smaller businesses that you know you're when you it's it's not like most of these are not large corporations that have Deep Pockets so you're um you know you risk pushing out a lot of small businesses if you with this much residential if you decide to shift it and um you're allowed to go up to 1.75 I think I saw the limit for if they were if if Ashland all of a sudden decided we want to shift as much as we can I think they're only allowed to go 1.5% um because it's so predominantly residential um but yeah I I I I had never heard the rule of that 15% rule of thumb but it's it's not a bad idea it's it just wouldn't it wouldn't be a popular decision right especially with small businesses okay thank you um B does the board have any questions um thank you very much for your presentation um you know one thing I think would be you know at some point maybe when presenting to town meeting or that would be to have a conversation about the types of services that vary between one community and another um just when I look up here I you know I know self BR doesn't have um trash pickup I don't believe right so there's varying Services um and you know in our case we're you know on the lower end and yet we have on the higher end of services I believe so um just interesting and then um the only other thing I was thinking is to to make it Apples to Apples I you know I don't know if it would be useful but it's I just wonder what would framingham's if it wasn't the 1.69 shift then what would it be what would their tax bill be yeah if they didn't yeah is that that's fairly easy to calculate right Nate yep that can be done in Gateway um I would just need their uh their Levy limit yeah I just kind of sitting here thinking about that stuff right yeah so but uh no thank you very much you're right though and that's a good way to look at it the services you provide versus what people pay versus what surrounding towns I didn't realize uh South bro didn't have things like trash pickup um yeah and Holliston doesn't have sewer there's you know there's so that's a good it's a good it's a great way to look at it it really shows that it's a good value and we're actually doing a little bit more of a deeper comparison with that with um the Colin Center study that we're doing so um you know so once that's once that's completed I think you'll see a little bit more meat on the on the bones of that analysis and and the thing is the way because it is so indepth um we won't necessarily have all of those communities but you know we've picked three um you know at varying let's just say tax levels one that's you know significantly more than Ashland one that's similar to Ashland and one that's significantly less so you can see what kind of you can start looking at Value in terms of what services are provided versus versus taxes I I agree with Claudia it without that context Michael it's really it's difficult to even analyze what's What's Happening Here I think for most people so I think that's very important yeah so Nate um so the first thing that they would need to vote on is whether or not they wanted to adopt a single rate correct correct okay and are we voting on that tonight or are we waiting to because we we don't close the the hearing until after town meeting correct that is correct so um Nate if I remember correctly it was only a year ago um but we the board goes ahead and votes on that now is that correct or do we need to wait until after all the Appropriations are done at town meeting to be honest I it's I think this might be the first town I've done that is a a town meeting town okay um so I'm not sure how that works okay um so I'd say let's go ahead and have the board vote um tonight okay um you do need to keep it open until until U after town meeting and then you can close it and if you need to take the vote again we'll goad do that no harm no fou um and as far as the other action items that's on the list we haven't we haven't explored all this no before no I mean I know that it's something that we probably should take a look at if but if we can't if we can't take any action on it this for this town meeting anyway like but I would love to be able to like have a conversation about what that all is yeah Nate and I actually talked about that earlier today um and just I think he's going to do U an exercise especially with the residential exemption because I think that's probably the one that you know when you start reading what in a residential exemption is is probably going to catch your eye um and so he's he going to look at doing that exercise as well okay all right so we can wait to do we can wait to do that does the board feel okay with that okay okay all right so um so what we'll do is we'll take a vote and then um so I would say that um unless the board has any other questions for for Nate I appreciate the presentation thank you okay welcome all right so while Yolanda still gets settled um could I get a motion to approve a single tax rate for FY 2025 all those in favor I I I um so it looks like we've approved the single tax rate for this upcoming year we'll keep the hearing open and then we'll close it after town meeting have Britney's information too correct and I think um so our meeting in December is scheduled for December 7th is that correct Susan yeah meeting is the 4th December 4th the 4th okay thank you you're welcome okay okay so we'll go ahead and finish finish close that out then okay all right um unless the board has any other questions I I also want to just thank the the board of assessors um David and Chuck and um and Steve that are online did did anyone have any additional comments I want to give you guys a chance to to say something if you guys wanted to add anything to this I think is okay all right thank you umine Chuck go ahead Chuck I I just said I think it's I think his presentation is great I'm completely with it all right great thank you Chuck okay I guess we'll be um moving on our agenda thank you so much Nate for joining us tonight it was great to meet you and ome and and we appreciate all the work that you're doing for for our community right now so thank you no problem at all it's a great team to work with good Brandy can I just ask Michael the question and Jen about the the study that's being done the Collins what what exactly is that so it's the Staffing study yeah what we've referred to as the Staffing study we as them to we just asked them to do a little bit of a deeper dive so they use some metrics that that we had and we're asking them to do a little bit of a deeper dive so that we could do a little bit more of that kind of comparison to give some context to some of the stats that we often use the other thing I think that might be useful in in these conversations when we're looking at the tax rate and the other communities that too would be then also to include like some home values you know related to just uh it I think it just helps you give you a better sense right of the whole picture of uh yeah home values in in what context do you think well in just in terms of you know what what the home value is to begin with and therefore how it might impact the tax rate right um and then just where what the correlation is between the tax rate and the so the three the three players really I guess the the tax rate um the home values um and the services the the amount of Serv expenditures essentially yeah because that's that's what goes into the algorithm if you will the calculation because really your tax rate is your function of your expenditures and the assessed value right right so um but it would be it's good to look at it in like real numbers or I don't know I just feel like those three categories to look at it in terms of real the housing market whatever and then the services the specific more specifically right what's being off and what's not being yeah yeah like we said we there's so many more services perhaps in the town of Ash than there are in some of those other communities with a higher tax rate correct so there's a great tool on the Department of Revenue website called the community comparison report and you you you select criteria you select your own criteria demographics or or whatever it may be um so you select the towns based on what by based on maybe it's population or land area or um average single family value and stuff like that and and it really hones down on who really is more similar than you unfortunately it doesn't include what services they get because that would just be that would be information probably too hard to maintain because those things change year by year you know yeah it's not an Apples to Apples type your best bet on that stuff is not necessarily looking at the revenue side but it's actually on the expenditures so okay so more to come on that all right thank you so much Nate I know you've been sharing your screen you can you can stop sharing your screen and and uh we will see you soon thank you thank you very much have a good night nice meeting you handing it over to miss Yolanda who is who has uh joined us in time thank you uh Brandy for taking over the meeting I apologize for being late um I'm learning quickly you can't be in two places at one time and I had a meeting that I had that I had to do because of something else I'm doing so thank you very much moving forward we have a presentation uh update on the village burial ground and I believe we have Helen who's gonna do that for us and Joan so uh this is just an update you guys have done some great work so Helen I'm going to pass it over to you hi yeah um so I have a presentation here I'm not sure how we get it I sent it to Susan Jen are you able to put it up no I think you should um we probably can just make you co-host but I can I don't have it but um Susan can you make Helen co-host so that she can share her screen you should be all set Helen you should be able to share now okay it's up can you see it no you just so just go to share at the bottom of the screen it's a in in the meeting you have to hit share okay wait a second I might I have this presentation up I can't see share okay share I see it all right so [Music] screen and then let me find the presentation and that's okay there you go wonderful all right so yeah I want I want to thank you all for having me tonight uh to give this uh update we uh we decided you know that it would be a good time now since we've really had a lot of events and we've had um a lot of work that's been done that down at the site of the village uh burial ground that would be a good time to do an update and let everyone know uh what's been happening down there uh so that's what this is and so go to the next screen so I I did a little bit of uh back I think we had covered this before but just to kind of reiterate everything that's been done since the spring so on our original uh cleanup day we the with the original condition of the headstones were covered in mold and lyen very few headstones were visible readable uh they were buried missing many headstones were broken off the base cracked and improperly repaired from uh previous uh work someone had done and many headstones were completely broken and required uh professional uh and requ do require uh Professional Restoration still the back sections of the cemetery were completely overgrown with brush and invasive plants and there was a large a dead tree in the cemetery which has been removed by the DPW uh we have hundreds of hours of volunteer work which is so wonderful um you know that we have so much community support and involvement um our community cleanup and volunteer Training Day the historical commission Historic Society Cemetery working group we had 36 volunteers that participated along with our conservators from TNT gravestone Solutions and there was a total of 250 combined total volunteer hours and uh during that event we had cleaning of the headstones using uh D2 uh to clean the headstones which is a biologic solution and uh they used brushes to clean off the stones able uh bodied volunteers were trained to pallet reset level and do light repairs of headstones we had volunteers trained by Kathy Rooney to move remove invasive plants uh cutting small trees and down limbs uh for removal and volunteers moved cut brush to a designated location where the DPW came and removed it on on a number of our events and the DPW also delivered water gravel and gravel for the repairs and disposed of the brush and limbs so that was over several uh cleanup days and we really do want to thank Doug Small Chris Messier and Kevin Lang Meer from the DPW because a lot of the um needed assistance that we got from them U made all of this really possible uh the DPW also had a large dead tree and the pretty much in the center of the site uh removed uh which was not only an isore but it was really sort of dangerous so it was nice that that got removed um we have a cemetery uh subw workking group that does repairs we call them our labor working group and uh there's a total of six participating volunteers right now and we plan to add additional volunteers over time um and the volunte total volunteers for that uh that group is 86 hours our Cemetery um let's see NOP sorry that's the same uh oh and I wanted to uh make note that all of the palleted headstones if you take a walk down there you will see pallets with headstones on them uh those had to be dug up in a waiting repair and that's why they're on those pallets it's basically to kind of keep them from being further damaged especially by uh lawnmowers and weed whackers so when work is going on in the in in the area they're not being you know further damaged many of the standing headstones were also buried and had to be dug up those headstones have already been repaired and reattached at the bases and leveled we had a an event uh with a high school community service day we had 2 uh 21 volunteers participating with a combined total number of 54 hours we had a Boy Scout community service day which I'll explain a little bit more about in a bit um and that was also a civil war recognition and Flag Ceremony that had a total of 29 volunteers with a combined number of 105 uh volunteer hours and so right now I have um the total number of volunteers so far is 114 with a total combined volunteer hours including all events and organization at 867 that is actually that's 867 hours that actually is a little bit low um I've been trying to get more information um there's a lot of it I have to go through and and we haven't got that completed yet but I also have an additional 64 hours from our research and document mentation group um because they're also doing ongoing work and I have to add that um I I had we had to put this together pretty quick uh so that got left out so I just wanted to kind of add that in so that number is a bit low and it may even still be a bit more than what I've got here and now we've go some we've got some pictures of this was the Training Day in June and this is our conservative TNT was teaching our our labor group uh skills uh that they now are using and are really doing a lot of good work down at the site doing leveling small repairs of the gravestones and um that's kind of going on on an ongoing basis when they have time so they'll just arrange with each other to go and meet down there and and you know they may go down and do seven or nine headstones or two or whatever they have time for so we've uh we've got a really nice group of people that are doing that in their free time and we really appreciate that and then the high school community service day uh this is just some pictures from that day we had three different groups of high school students that came in for two-hour shifts and uh did a lot of brush cleanup work which we also really appreciated then um recently we had a Boy Scout Troop uh community service day uh and Civil War vetan recognition uh day as well with the Boy Scouts which was really a nice event and uh 29 Boy Scouts and their leaders and working group members participated uh major brush and uh Leaf cleanup of the back areas was done they documented headstone information including names dates condition of the uh Stones the size of the stones the locations materials used for the headstones and needed repairs so another thing that we're doing and we have our documentation team doing is filling out a form that one of our team members uh made uh just specifically for this so when work needs to be done or or when they're documenting anything about each headstone there's going to be um before and after information for each for each headstone and eventually when all of this repair work is completed um we will have that record for the future which is something we hope to um really uh have housed in the um in the vault at Town Hall uh because that would be nice so that in the future anyone who wants information so they can go there and look at and and there it is and they'll be able to find out what was done and and how it was done and all of the information they might be looking for so the Boy Scouts while they were there learned historic and interesting factual details about the people buried in the cemetery which was really interesting because they really enjoyed that you have to have seen them the way they kind of intermingled with each other discussing the details of these things to know that it was really something that they enjoyed and that they really picked up on that they were learning something because they were talking about you know a lot of people had Jaws back then as as a shoe makers or they died of consumption and these aren't things we talk about a lot today so they were discussing it so you know they really learned uh something and became engaged in in that whole uh process and and it was really nice and then each Boy Scout read a paragraph of the history of each Civil War veteran as the flags and military service medallions were beinged placed at each of the grave sites so uh that was another way that they were able to pick up on a lot of that information as well um and it was a just a very nice and uh you know it was a very good recognition for the Civil War veterans who hadn't been recognized in I don't know how long but a very long time um and there are two additional Civil War veterans Graves that need to be found we know that they should be there and we're hoping to locate those in the near future so by all measures that day was an incredible success and there's some pictures of the Boy Scouts and their leaders all down at the cemetery site um we have a group picture and some pictures of them uh doing the work uh down there and then we also have pictures of the flag ceremony and the boy you can see the boys reading and uh placing Flags so that that was just a heartwarming thing I have to tell you it was really it was truly nice to be able to participate and see all that um so that was that was nice for our members and for them as well so common progress um at the site uh the cemetery has had an amazing transport transformation if you've been down there you can you can see all the visible headstones were clean and many can now be read which is really which is really an amazing transformation because I know when I first went down there couldn't read a lot of those headstones you couldn't read many of them in fact and now most of them can be read um all unrepaired and unsecured headstones have been palleted I explained that earlier uh 13 headstones were repaired on the volunteer Training Day nine additional uh since by the work the labor working group uh many previously buried headstones have been found and we're still looking for more we know there's more in the back section which just recently got cleared of all the poison ivy so it was a little bit tough for us to have people going over the summer was a little tough anyway because it was really hot but we also had that area that still needed to have the poison ivy removed so we didn't want to send people into areas until poison ivy was removed so that area uh recently was it was removed in people have gone in there and started cleaning that area and we hope to find more headstones down there and then um we are currently and I explained this earlier documenting all the before and after information for each headstone and to keep a you know to keep an ongoing record and to to finally have a a completed record at the end of the whole process William Bell's relatives uh wanted to know if his grave had been accounted now this was someone who was down there that we found and uncovered their their headstone had been completely buried and we had found it and their their relative wanted to know if if that headstone was there and it was during one of our brush cleanup events and we were very excited to let them know that the stone had been uncovered and so uh Community engagement and volunteerism has been extraordinary and we've been very very happy about that that was the model we really hoped to predominantly use um eventually we will uh move to uh professional uh restoration when we have to but right now we're sticking with this because it's working really well for us um so this is some of the labor um ongoing volunteer work that's going down on down at uh the village burial ground and you can see some of the members of our of our labor working group down here uh working on the headstones and they're basically uncover ing a lot of the bases too so even if the headstone is say out of the ground or partially out of the ground a lot of times the bases are buried under the ground they these things sink I guess about I think it was six inches every hundred years um but anyway they've been digging up uh the the uh bases and trying to put them back together with the headstones and and they've been doing a great job and you can even see here uh just if you notice from that first picture I showed the difference in these R stones and the coloring they're they're you know they're very clean and they're very nice looking and you can read them which is which is really wonderful and so our next steps um we expect that we still expect I should say this to take between two and three years to complete we're continuing with the volunteerism and Community involvement model until we get the headstones that require Professional Restoration and then we will go to get a survey and assess the costs at that point um the community uh volunteer events will uh continue that's valuable work and we and we really appreciate that work and and involving the community the cemetery uh working labor group will continue with the small repairs and leveling on an ongoing basis until all their work is completed the cemetery uh working group documentation team will continue documenting and researching gravestone information location and condition both before and after until all of the gravestones have been completed and that information as I said will be housed housed at the vault at Town Hall when it's completed for future reference and interest we also hope to um find and document those last two Civil War veter veterans head gravestones and we want to eventually install two historic kiosks with a map of the site and historical information we're currently discussing if the sign that says ashin Cemetery should be replaced with a sign that reads uh Village burial ground the correct name of the site we also plan to install uh some signs that say dogs are not allowed on the site since that seems to have become an issue and we also uh would like to eventually um more towards the end of the project plant a 4 inch border of low growing grasses around each headstone to minimize damage uh from lawnmowers and weed whackers because when they get close to those headstones they do create damage and we have noticed some additional damage since uh this restoration project started so we really want to we want that as part of the project to minimize that damage and we think that's an important thing and then we plan to install uh Native plantings near the river and our future plans for funding are to use the current funds that we have in the historical commissions account uh then the funds raised through grants if we can get them and fundrais future fundraising and we will eventually apply for CP CPA funding as as funds allow I'm sorry okay so um and I just got a couple more things and then um we hope to get eventually if we can if if funding allows get ground penetrating radar to get an accurate account of the number of remains intered at the Village burial ground the Professional Restoration of the gravestones will be completed after the survey and B and bidding requirements are implemented and we are currently planning a civil war service at the Village burial ground for spring 2025 that will likely be in April we hope that you are as excited at our as at our progress that and everything we've achieved and this has been a very real labor of love so do you have any questions any questions from the committee Joe I have one thank you Helen thank you uh and and your committee and all the volunteers that that have done the job uh to restore that location um are there actual numbers as to the number of burial uh in that in that location there's not an accurate number we know there's over 200 gravestones and I do have the number written down somewhere but I'm not sure um I know exactly where that is right now but I know it's over 200 um but we know there's more people buried down there uh than we have gravestones because some of the gravestones are buried some of them are missing and also because some of them were moved we're not sure of the headstones that were moved to Wildwood when Wildwood first opened we're not sure how many of the bodies went then there's also the fact that a lot of times people if they didn't have money um would be buried without a headstone so that's why we'd like to get the GPS um the ground penetrating radar to get an accurate account of how many people are actually in in the site itself um and that's something we would like to do it's a little expensive um but we do hope to eventually be able to do that and one last question if you don't mind Madam chair um with respect to all the work that you've done uh are there future plans to add protective uh barriers so individuals don't command like fencing area make sure that we don't have people running through and you know knocking things down that you've so taking care of nicely you know the thing is one aside from it being very expensive there are stone walls around it um so you know I I know the stone walls don't completely um keep people from coming in especially because there are a couple of openings I mean we could maybe even talk about gating the openings but we don't want to keep everybody out um because we want people to be able to go in and visit it as a somewhat of a nice you know historic destination um the thing that I would be the most concerned about more so would be maybe kids going in and playing and damaging headstones and we have a sort of conversation going about that right now we haven't made any decisions on that but fencing is very expensive and as I said we have to kind of go through all of these other things first before we could even begin to think about that so we haven't really discussed that but I know as I said there is there is barriers I mean there's there's stone walls and on on the backside there's the river so they're not going to come through the river um they could come over the fence uh the stone wall but you could come over a fence too so and then you have just the two openings so maybe we would talk about that in the future you know maybe dealing with those openings I don't know that that's something that the working group will have to address thank you good yita hi Helen uh just wanted a comment and and a question first off I just wanted to to thank you the committee all the volunteers this has been such an incredible Community project um I I I had the opportunity to get out there and volunteer a couple of times with the labor committee or the labor folks and I just I'm so impressed by the dedication the focus uh the meticulousness of all the volunteers and the caring it's just it's it's truly amazing to see the community come together uh to preserve our history this way so I wanted to thank you for all of your efforts and all the volunteers and all the folks who are M making this possible um first off in in so far as keeping folks out of the property you know I think we we we have talked about the CH the concern about kids playing it's not even I I think there's a double concern there not so much actually in addition to kids you know possibly damaging those headstones there's also the possibility of kids getting hurt in a really in a significant way I mean you know so with all the the repair work going on and and such so I think there there is a need for to take a look at you know who who can who and how can pass through uh in a constructive way the the other I have a question for you U about the headstones it's specifically Bally uh the footstone so we've been talking about the headstones quite a bit but there's also been a lot of footstones around is there a considered effort to try to preserve that as well um or what's the significance of those footstones in relation to the headstones um yeah so when there is a footstone sure they that would have already been cleaned because they cleaned everything down there if it needed a you know um a leveling or some kind of repair that would also be looked at um not and it made just be that not every um grave site got a footstone but I know there are some I don't have an accounting for how many there are and there may there may again uh be things down there that we don't know about because they could be buried or they could have disappeared over time and that's something we wouldn't um be able to get the information on but as they find them in short they would address the footstones uh any any part of um the site that you know would exist from The Headstone to the footstone would be would be be repaired or or cleaned as needed thanks okay CL anything yeah you know I I too just wanted to thank you Helen and and your group um it really has been an amazing project and to see these pictures and how far it's come um really very impressive and um and I was also I was wondering so if a person wanted to go in instead of come out um like you don't want to come out I'm not sure you're saying where where is that where is the best uh access okay so there is there's two entrances so there's one directly behind the Federated church so if you walk along the parking lot next to the Federated church and take your right you're going to see the the the stone wall and there's a break in the stone wall right there that's the main entrance um that we've been using there's a another side entrance on the right hand side of the the cemetery on the wall on the far right side and that also has a break I know the DPW uses that entrance to come in but I believe that's also private property over there and there's some agreement to let DPW use it so I don't know that like parking there is really as accessible as that first entrance I would go in through the back of the Federated uh Church yeah yeah and it it it does have um an interesting history and it's really coming up on uh 200 years old in in um 2028 right yes it is so um you know really interesting I don't know uh people who may have not gone into cemeteries much um it's pretty interesting sometimes to go in and um have an opportunity to look at you know the dates and often there might be a few words that are engraved about the person or what they died from or um you know a variety of uh information it's interesting to look at how old they were in those days particularly at death and uh just just they're they're much more interesting I think than than you realize until you go in and uh and then of course there's always nothing like a good Stone rubbing too so but actually I kind of heard that stone rubbing is um a little bit detrimental to I was just gonna say it's probably not um really good for the the yeah I don't think it is but you are right it it's just really um a lot of interesting interesting information just walking around and reading those stones and you get kind of a picture of like just a lot of people died very young back then you know they were buried next and you know who was who and you see a lot of because you're you're an Ashland resident and you've been here long enough and you know names so you do see a lot of old Ashland names in there so it it is it's a really interesting historical place to go and it's kind of nice and quiet and peaceful too it's it's a nice place yeah yeah funny thing how that works all right well thank thank you really very much it it really does look great great all right thank you madam chair so thank you so much Helen and and and the team for for all the work I I was so impressed with just the number of sheer hours and people that you've that you've literally um motivated to to to be a part of this project took took time to keep track of I mean your data is really good and and and you know we know how hard it is to like it's kind of like hurting cats sometimes to get volunteers to to um to commit and show up and continuously show up so just um kudos to you for for the efforts around all of that because it's it's it's a huge effort so um so thank you for for that and for the committee that's been um and Kate JK is also here and I know she's been very involved in that as well um but I had a couple questions one you know as we were talking about sort of this like under construction current state of it um I was was wondering if it made sense to like put up some sort of temporary sign or anything about like just like a caution you know just I'm I'm just throwing that out there because just just so people don't get hurt like or we I don't know I'm just well no I mean I I I I I hear what you're saying I think I think it that makes sense just of you know people either don't get people use a little bit more caution when they're walking around the site just to not to damage all the work that the volunteers have done but also just to make sure that they're being careful as well um I if possible yeah just sort of like an un you know just you know caution under construction or something just something like that just something um but that was my that was my first first question and then the other thing I know you had mentioned um CPC funding um as a as an option to you know I know it's more kind of like longer term because you still have funds left um which I assume the funds are probably going to go towards you know this this upcoming spring and summer from a time frame standpoint like what are your thoughts about like timing for for for CPA funds well I think that we're gonna so we we had a meeting uh last week and we're planning on having another meeting I believe in a month or so uh before everybody gets you know into the winter to do all of our next steps um and I think our timeline um right now is a little bit fluid in that we want to be able to really utilize the volunteers and utilize the community service and keep people excited about it um because one it's it's a really nice project for the community to to be involved in but also because I think when we go for that funding it's nice to have Community Support so that would be very helpful um but I I believe as soon as we um find what we believe will be all the stones we're going to find down there because we kind of want to have all the stones visible and we know there's more back there um because once we have an accounting of everything we could get a more accurate assessment of what needs to be done and what our volunteers can do and what they can't and that's when we'll start talking about the survey and then going for CPC funding so it is a little fluid um so and I know there's all kinds of you know dates and you have to have things in by certain times to be able to get for you know the next so we're not as concerned with that right now this year because we really have to look at next year first we had kind of thought that might be the thing we were doing right now but once we kind of got into this and we really realized that one I think our volunteers are actually going to be able to do more work down there than we had originally conceived and so that's a nice thing because that saves us a lot of money and it's and it's a way for people to be involved in the community and it's a way to restore part of the community with the within the community which is I think nicer than actually having to pay someone but there are Stones down there that are Beyond uh our labor group's uh capability and will require it but we'll we'll get that after we get the total number of stones located and assessed for from our perspective as to what we can and can accomplish and then we'll be able to to get the survey which I'm kind of thinking is going to be next year and then we'll go for the CPC funding either next year if we have it in time or or or the following like I said it's a two to three year and it's a little bit fluid right now just because we are kind of going at this slower Pace now than we had originally planned because we are really having a lot of success you know using using our our volunteers and getting work done that way okay oh and also um as far as the sign uh put down there you know that's something that I will also bring up with this Cemetary committee I don't have any um I don't think anyone would have a problem with that I just have to discuss that with them and and we can plan getting something down there I don't think that should be a problem either okay sounds good thank you yeah thank you and I'm I'm really uh glad to be able to come and present this tonight thank you well thank you very much Helen I think the rest of the board has covered any potential questions uh if I have anything else I will reach out but I too want to thank you and your committee and certainly as we as we see here in Ashland when volunteers come together amazing things can happen and you have shown that that is truly the case with this project so thank you for leading it thank you for keeping those volunteers engaged and we look forward to seeing what else gets accomplished in this space thank you thank you madam chair if I could just say one thing this is Joan confra sure go ahead Joan very quickly because we have some people waiting that we'd like to get in as well right I just want to thank Helen she has done y's work and I hope that that that that gets gets recognized in the town that without her this project would not be going on thank you so much you're very welcome thank you thank you Joan Joan also does a lot we are actually Co we're co-managing this project so Joan does a lot too so thank you great okay wonderful uh Rick Peter we are ready we are going to have a presentation I don't know if they heard me uh our next item on our agenda is a presentation on update and we're a little bit late we apologize uh thank you for your patience um sometimes things take longer than you plan uh as I said the next item on our agenda is an update on the regional YMCA that is coming here to Ashland people are very excited about it and uh I'm going to invite the three of you up and um take us through this presentation like I think Jen is pulling it up for you on that computer and uh you have to start Rick come on for those who don't know you just introduce yourselves and then go through it we're excited I think the community is excited to get the update as well SL yeah let's goward to the slideshow good evening um evening folks it's uh really great to be here um we all know it's um this project has been like in the pipeline for some time now you know and uh it's just so exciting to be to the point now where we're making really good progress so real quick just introduce who you are oh I'm sorry my name we all know but some people watching may not I'm sorry my name is Rick mcferson I'm president CEO of the Metro West YMCA right so um if you take a quick look back before I introduce Peter um it was back in 2019 that with the town of Ashland we were uh able to secure the land that this new regional YMCA is going to be on in Ashland so that 2019 and as the ball was starting to get rolling Co hit right and everything you know turned into crisis management for all of us right and and so um 2020 2021 was all about just responding to community needs while keeping the the flame burning for the new Regional Y and doing work behind the scenes um and so once we you know hit 2022 things started rolling along pretty nicely and so we're here tonight to give you an update on just where we stand and so I would like to introduce Peter Weiss Gerber who's our chief development officer to kind of get us started and then I'll I'll be back thanks Rick um so as Rick said I'm Peter we Gerber I'm the chief development officer and a proud Ashen resident so we're excited about uh about this project um about a year and a half ago uh we had come back to the project we went out we redid the feasibility study we redid Market studies really trying to get a sense of what the community was looking for in a new Regional why so we did a phase called listen learn and dream we received CE about 2,000 surveys from folks in Ashland hopkington hollist Sherburn even parts of of South Framingham because this will truly be a a regional why and what it came back as is yes there's still excitement there's still a need for a facility and then there were a couple things that were a little different on this side of the the pandemic one was that the community was really asking for a place that would bring people together from all walks of life that would unify the community that would unify the region the other thing was the Mental Health crisis for children that we are facing and we continue to see it today with kids in our child care programs our early learning programs after school care programs summer camps and there really is a a need now to address that our staff go through what we call trauma-informed care training because of kids coming off of that um tough couple years are still facing those challenges today Challen challenges of socialization challenges of getting back in the classroom so as we work to try to Pro protect the opportunity for all kids to to learn this really became an opportunity to look at the facility in some different ways so about a year and a half ago we said okay it's time to come back um together again do you not see Jen can you just look at this real quick I this is what so I think you just have to do it with this instead of that so which one so you have to do it with the arrows okay I don't really yeah you should be able to do it that way all right go get these two arrows back and forth yeah so then it's working okay yeah my apologies uh so about a year and a half ago um we decided it was time to bring our leadership cabinet together together um we recruited a group of about 20 volunteers from each of the towns we tried to get um a diverse group of folks uh we recruited two amazing leaders Tom Karen who many of you may know from nesson Sports the Red Sox U vizy Tac who I think a lot of you know from Ashland uh two fantastic passionate compassionate volunteers who then worked to bring a group of 20 folks together including our very own Yolanda um Steve Greenberg from Ashland Amy turncliff from Ashland as well and those folks really started to look at building a group of folks who cared about this project we knew if we were going to kick off a fundraising campaign that folks don't give because they have capacity folks give because they care so our job over the last year and a half was to find out who out there cares about this project about that time we had been working with MathWorks out of NAC and they stepped up with lead gift of $2.5 million to really kick things off uh which was exciting so at that time we had our marathon community breakfast an event we hold each year and we announced that lead gift from mathw Works fast forward to this past Year's Marathon Community breakfast and we were able to announce uh Federal HUD funding in the amount of $5 million that was directed towards the Early Learning Center component of this project which is very exciting to actually know we're going to have an early learning center a child care center uh as part of of this we were also able to announce at that event that we will be naming this facility in honor of and in memory of the hoit family Rick and decoit were very involved with our YMCA they had helped us each year they were our first inspiration award honores and helped us decide who we were honoring each year Rick had some very specific ideas about the uh the facility I think he wanted pools or um but uh but he cared about this dick cared about this and now Rick's brother Russ is still very involved with our Y and it means the world to them that we'll be able to name a facility on the Boston Marathon route in honor and memory of the the hoit family just a few months ago we were also able to announce that uh we received State funding of $500,000 uh thanks to our incredible Metro West legislative delegation that we have in the state Senate President um and a little bit of a sneak preview um but on Tuesday November 19th at our dream big auction will be announcing a very special announcement of a gift that that we received of of a million dollars so that's really exciting what that all means is that the first $10 million of this project is now behind us so as we start to shift towards the next 10 million really looking at okay what are those resources in the community that we can go to uh Gifts of that level as we're looking at the top of the pyramid they take a lot of time and we talked here about a number of projects that that take time to get done so the passion of our volunteers the involvement the time Talent dedication really means the world to us and folks staying with us and trusting the process to get to that first $10 million as we go and we look forward we've submitted requests and you can see here on the screen to to a number of Foundations corporations also working with our leadership cabinet and our board of directors as we um shift towards this next $10 million so you can kind of see the the time frame here it's been a journey for all of us but we're excited we're making progress we now see a path forward and with the momentum we have continuing that progress we have an opportunity if things continue as they're going to break ground in 2025 which now doesn't seem that far away does it two months yeah that's a good point two months that's really close so at the same time one of the things I was trying to say to to our staff is sometimes you see see a duck on the water and it feels like things nothing's really happening but if you look under the water the legs are going crazy and there's a lot of activity happening that's the way the project has been there have been a ton of things happening on the site you'll hear about that a ton of things happening getting us ready to approach 2025 and from a fundraising standpoint we continue to gain momentum we continue to connect with key folks in the community who want to see this become a reality and uh we'll be reaching out to a lot of people over the next few months uh engaging them in the process so with that I'm going to turn it back over to Rick all right so we're going to get into a bit of a design update really high levels to kind of give you a feel for what this project is shaping up to look like on the site um The Guiding principles of this let me take one step back um we're in we just completed what we call the light schematic design phase and Kerrie will talk more about that but during that phase of the project was all about getting every on the same page and part of that was uh you know Hiring Our architect which was a big deal and so we hired a architectural firm called CBT Architects they're out of Boston and they just hit all the all the important um aspects of what we were looking for they really have a great feel for working in a space with uh you know that's in nature like this site you know they have a good sense of that um and they just clicked with our entire team so um CBT Architects has been leading this kind of design effort and you know we talked about what are our principles and our guiding principles are around health and well-being right and achievement relationship and belonging are all the things we're going to really make sure happen in this facility uh state-of-the-art programs is a real driver we need to make sure this facility is prepared to you know just deliver incredible programs for you know young children older children seniors everybody um making sure that this is an inclusive facility at every turn like we've got this awesome opportunity to from the beginning be intentional about making sure like where does that elevator go you know where are the stairs you know how do we get in and out of this building what's the parking lot look like so we don't like often I think in past projects just in the world you know what gets done first and then you say oh by the way now let's figure this out but we can do it ahead of time and we are um and finally you know integrating there's more and more stud about just how important it is for mental health purposes for us to be outside and to enjoy nature and all of that and this site lends itself to that like more so than like a Framingham facility where you've got a beautiful facility and some space out back but not like this so for us to be able to take full advantage of that is a real driver for us um I won't really get into a lot of this but you do see the bottom left box sustainability we talk about it lot you know we're really trying to make sure that we do everything within our power to make sure that you know we're doing everything we can to have a sustainable facility that is um that we're all going to be really proud of I kind of like this slide we talk a lot about um spaces that connect and Inspire so when you go to some facilities older facilities you walk in and you're on the first floor the second floor the third floor but our Architects are working hard to try to create and this is this helps I think with kind of I forget what you called it car but like inclusion through visibility right so you can kind of see what's happening you know in a facility like from one floor you can see up in some areas you can see down you'll feel like you're part of the whole thing and so that's kind of exciting and again to kind of re-emphasize program is the driver so having a space that is great for all sorts of different types of programs is uh the number one um kind of guiding principle for us like Peter said creating a sense of community for everybody you know by designing the space properly is right there as well and inclusion at every turn I love the picture of the hoists up there and our hoit statue you see tachana mcfaden um they're in our Early Learning Center and just having a facility that brings all of our communities together um there's never been a more important time I think than now for a place like that and finally you know taking full advantage of that beautiful facility and our connection to the Charley Brook Trail you can see there's our entrance you know where the little easement from the Y going in there is and um you'll see when I flip to the next page we're working hard to make sure our internal kind of trail system on the 12 and a half acres connects to trolley Brook and so that's exciting and on that you know on in that on that kind of Campus space there will be Fields so when you see these kids kicking around balls and playing outside there's going to be space for that um which is pretty exciting so that's kind of a money shot for tonight for you to kind of get a a feel for the whole campus you know I mean just I'll pause there for a minute so you can take a look I mean that is something you know car we'll talk a little bit more about why you know it landed in the spaces it does but um you can see you know the front of the building the Early Learning Center over there to the left field space to the back and all of the connects on its way to Charlie book on the very back side of the property and this is just it blown up a little bit bigger for you to see so that's Memorial Drive the parking lot is on Memorial Drive and you can see the two red arrows going in a lot of time it's been done right talking about you know traffic and how we're going to get into this facility and out of this facility and disrupt you know the traffic on that street just as little as possible so it's a nice smooth way in smooth way out you know with that I'm going to turn it over to Carrie to talk a little bit more about you know how the design you know how we got to some of these and um go from there so thanks hi um Carrie de Leo um with scalora Consulting we are an Ashlin based project management firm so like everyone else who's been involved with this project we're super excited because we can almost see the site from our from our office um which is right across from the commuter rail so like Rick said um actually I'll go back to what Peter said the paddling under the surface lots and lots of activity happening right so there's a lot of planning that goes into making a a facility like this but also checking ahead of time to make sure when we get to you when it comes to site plan approval and advertising this to the world that we've done our due diligence we know we can do what we want to do right so um I'll kind of go through that process uh so you can see but I just wanted to give you a high Lev overview of the building it itself and and this is what we're calling the master plan um if we go back here I'd say the full master plan means everything is done including you know what's going on down the hill and what's going on in the future and and all that um but zoomed in what those building blocks so the the main core of this building is going to be that membership Center so that focus on health and wellness serving the community child care um you know after school care child care for drop-ins uh all of that gymnasium um and then also off to the side you'll see that ELC so again the ELC has been a core piece of this program we've also are planning for you know building in an Aquatic Center so that that uh aquatics first uh chunk would be like a family Aquatic Center you know entertainment pools and then the second chunk is more of a a laat pool Edition and then there's also room for gym expansion um the what you can't see here which I think is important to this site is there's an existing berm that runs along uh Memorial Drive and so one of the first conversations we had was you know what does this want to look like from the street right do you want to be running the marathon and be able to go by Dunkin Donuts and see the building up the hill or do you want to approach the site and then discover it as you enter and what when we started talking about those connections with nature we kind of thought you know what it makes more sense there's going to be a sign people are going to know they're coming to the why but you're going to go past that burm which will be kind of a shielding and then as you kind of work your way into the site you discover more and more right you pull in okay this is where I put my car oh look at the building oh behind the building there's more programming oh look it's connected to the trails Etc so that was kind of the design big picture approach and I'm not an architect um I just play one at public meeting so um so I'll just you know I'm just repeating all the all the things that I've heard but that was kind of the approach if you're familiar with the site which many of you are you know it drops off quite a bit to the back right so that idea of you know trying to bring the building forward and then you know put the parking in the back it just didn't seem like it worked right what we really wanted to Pres OB erve is what is going on out back right those views that connection to Nature the trees all of that so there's a couple of different areas that are um identified here that the survey showed us there's some Higher Ground what if we take a couple of those Higher Ground areas and connect them and create kind of what we're calling the development space so that bar of building is going to land on that Ridge where we already have some high ground and then the grade drops off behind the beauty of that is it allows us to kind of build a really um straightforward building right it does a couple of things um from a building perspective uh that I think this shows is one because of that grade drop off we can bring the scale of the building down so that from the main entry it doesn't look that big but then we have a lower level that actually opens out to the to the ground so that you have good daylight and you can really take advantage of some of those um features of the site um the other thing that really is nice about this is the orientation of the building so the north side of the building is the side that faces the woods right so we can really take advantage of Northern Light filtered light and then the southern facing side is where we would have to control the sunlight um it's much more controllable when you're dealing with a smaller volume on the front right so this is you know still very much conceptual but that idea of letting that light filter in from the back like Rick mentioned trying to have some multi- level spaces so that you can kind of see in see out see up see down all of that um really should make for a very transparent building for the users um and also for the sunlight and then this is just a stacking diagram that was done to try to understand you know where do the floors want to be right so the gym is on the main floor but instead of coming in on the first floor you're actually going to come in on the second floor so that from an accessibility perspective nobody is more than one floor away from where they want to go right so some really really thoughtful work that went into that to make sure that we are keeping that at the Forefront and that we're also planning not only for now but planning for what could this site be over the course of its lifetime right making sure that as programs change and needs change that we're designing a building that the Y can renovate in multi-purpose over years and years and years so the status of where we are um like Rick said we've just finished what we're calling a light schematic phase uh a lot of work but still some schematic level stuff left to do um and what that meant was it got us a set of documents that we could price dial in on some budgets make sure we were not too far off from our targets um we were also able to um start the process because of the HUD funding there's a kind of um long list of items that we have to uh fill out complete Etc as it relates to environmental assessment so um pretty comprehensive environmental planning um we were able to get going on that and actually we are just about at the point where we are ready to submit that to HUD for our uh our um HUD they they call it the esa one or something but uh ESI so um that will go in we'll get a ruling from HUD that makes sure that we can actually build a daycare facility with their funds on our site all of that seems so far no red flags which is fantastic news um but as part of that again some of the stuff you haven't seen test pits borings um survey work uh we've done preliminary traffic studies we did a noise study we've done a endangered species study we've done um yeah all all the things right and um the attitude was you know some of these things may come up when we go in for HUD let's just do them now so that when the question gets asked we say yeah we've already we've already taken care of that right yes we Have No ledge party we're hoping for no ledge uh we know we have a lot of lot of big rocks um so we are um we're really hopeful that we don't hit anything too catastrophic out there um and then what's coming next so uh as we've now completed that light schematic we're moving into the next phase which is to finish up the schematic um exercises which from an outsider's view probably not a lot is going to change right is more just kind of checking some boxes so that we can dive into what we call Design development which is when the design really starts to get developed as it says um but that's when we dial in on things like what are the mechanical systems locking in the rooms what does the building look like um all of those types of things what are we going to put in for finishes flooring signage Etc um so we will work on that through the winter and um we've also started now clearly uh starting our meetings with the town we want to engage you all um we want to engage the community to understand what folks are looking for make sure all of those surveys you know are being answered and that that the Y is doing what they can to answer as much as they can and for the community with this building and then when we are finished with that that's when we'll be coming back to the town to start talking about site plan approval and next steps you know meeting with all the Departments and making sure there's no questions um so we can progress that so that when we get ready for construction documents everybody is ready to roll this again is just a high level I can't really read it but just showing kind of where we've been um the last few months leading up to this and then moving forward you know going to the board um you know next spring for an update and and continuing to go back to the board of the why to keep us moving that's all I have thank you yeah so the next several months are big months you know we have a lot of work to be doing um our our board is 100% supportive and our at our last meeting you know gave us the green light to keep this keep everything moving and so that's what we're doing what Peter uh and Carrie didn't really talk about uh is part of this over the next several months we'll be starting to talk to Banks you know about potential financing we're working with third party to really look at our proforma budgets so between financing performa budgets you know in continued um fundraising you know all of that that's going to come together in June and there are no red flags we feel good about how everything is moving so you know our our goal our hope is in June all of these pieces come together we don't have any come sideways on us between now and then and if that's the case you know the ball keeps rolling and so with that I guess I would ask are there any questions for us questions comments Joe go ahead thank you madam chair Rick thank you uh great presentation thank you all for being here um the first time I had an opportunity to really read what you folks have were ready to present and um you had one uh slide up there with respect to sustainability and I know that ashl we're trying to be as green as we can and with some of the newer buildings that we've recently built in the last couple of years um we started going geothermal is that something that you folks would probably entertain uh if it's if it's feasible for you folks to do something like like that if you could come on to the microphone Carrie sorry I could try but car's bit more the expert here um we did already have that conversation um I think uh the adjacency of this site to the Niza site makes folks a little bit nervous about doing anything that goes down into the water table um so we at this point are have tabled that discussion um because of both cost and uh risk aversion if that makes sense solar is on the solar is definitely like we're already in talks um with uh solar sponsor yeah with to talk about solar we uh this will be a high performance building right so very very well insulated um and then fully electric building which is now provide you know necessary for the the energy code yeah yeah I think 2025 that kicks in if I'm not mistaken right yeah yeah yeah yeah so okay thank you appreciate that any other questions comments no I just want to say uh thank you it's a very exciting um I know that um it's been really a topic of conversation in town for several years now and people have been so excited and certainly the pandemic uh kind of put squashed a few things along the way um it's been great to know that you all are back working full steam ahead um and I certainly for for one I can't begin to tell you how many people have talked to me about how excited they are with this project so so thank you very much you're all very welcome great anybody else Makita Brandy so thank you very much for the presentation I know that um you know we've talked you know over the years and I know you had said that you need to get to a certain point with fundraising before you're able to break ground was that se is it 70% fundraising is that sort of like what your target tget is before or is it am I not remembering it correctly I might not be remembering yeah that's it's kind of a complicated question okay you know it's it's a combination of um of of fundraising and financing okay and the performa budget what this what this facility is going to generate as Revenue to offset debt and that kind of thing so it's it's a it's a full-blown analysis that's happening right now okay and so it's kind of hard to say you know 50% pledges you know you know identified would be nice you know that's a goal of ours is to get to you know that as soon as we can hopefully you know in the months ahead um but it it's a little bit more complicated than just saying that okay but right now there are no red flags and all of those buckets are lined up where they're supposed to be today so good awesome yeah I would I would I would reiterate that we're all very excited about this project um I'm curious I know the f pH two phase three for the aquatics program is that going to be like part of because at some point probably I would assume after June you guys will have everything kind of pulled together and be ready to submit an application to our planning board and that process are are you planning to include those those additional phases in that whole planning process or you are okay yeah we're going all in on site plan approval for the entire project you know and our goal is to just keep moving and have this whole master plan done keep just keep it moving you know the beauty of the way it's designed is if there needs to be any pauses along the way you can you know you don't have to finish the entire thing all at once and as you all know the cost of of of putting up facilities like this is growing pretty dramatically so you know we know that um the the membership side of this facility is it's going to be 36 million anyway could be as much as 40 million and by the time you finish an entire master plan by the time we get there Carrie we could be talking $55 million right and so the good news about the way this has been designed is we can move before we we don't have to do the whole master plan all at once but we can get the ball rolling and then that will create more momentum and and so that's how we're what's a square footage of the initial part of the project 30 uh so the about n and 40 right 9000 for the DLC and 40,000 it's it's approaching 40 you're right yeah it's maybe just're trying to keep it y yeah somewhere okay thank you so and I just love looking at the design and kind of the vision that you guys are putting together it just it really kind of I can I can kind of see it in my brain how it's going to flow on the site and it's it's it's pretty it's pretty cool like I can just imagine like light coming into the window I'm just yeah no so so thank you and I would say if you haven't gone up to walk and you want to go walk let me know or reach out to Peter and Rick and they'd love to you know be happy to take you up there because there's a nice path now that takes you into the site and it's really cool and then steps and yeah steps yep so ran it right out of the rock great great well uh thank you all for coming and presenting it's great for our community to hear the update and um I'm sorry we won't be able to join you on November 19th that's unfortunate but I'm sure it'll be a big success and I'll be bidding from town meeting the silent auction you can still can check in we had any flexibility we wouldn't have G meeting I know I it's tough that would be fun but thank you all for coming sorry greatly appreciate it okay sounds good sounds good thank you good night good night Happy Thanksgiving thanks I was thinking we should put uh you know we should give everybody a piece of paper as they come in I know we talked about some information about the 40b versus the um MBTA and I know Trisha Kendall I meant to talk to you about that mic is putting together presentation but just a sheet of some updates because I know we're not really allowed to give updates during Tom meeting Mr Shuster is very stripped about certain things so but wouldn't that be nice if just put a QR code say some updated information about the that' be great about the why and and just have take it to this presentation you know that great and the burial ground too for that matter yeah yeah yes yes exactly I mean people yeah there's so many things I just put a little QR code on there and like take people right to them help do that the other thing would be could interesting is to give them a link to the town manager's newsletter right maybe if they're coming to town meeting and they don't get that newsletter they could sign up sign up yeah yeah that's great yeah what it's a okay wonderful okay moving on hopefully we can get through the rest of the things fairly quickly before we go into exec session first is the review of special town meeting warrant articles we've been through this a few times we're going to go through one more time if there's any other questions and also sort of discuss who might be doing a couple of them our select board where we would then pres present it so uh is this going to be Jen taking us through this okay okay um so the first article is the free cash appropriation um and that will be putting funds into to our general stabilization fund OPB um sped stabilization fund and the capital fund um and we we have fully met withi the finance committee and um recommendations we'll post this online so the full warrant book will be online tomorrow oh good um the second article is the budget amendment and that's really just um adjusting our Capital um out outlay appropriation um from 2.69 00 to 925 um and I think we discussed this at our last meeting but when we met with the finance committee and we sort of talked that through they sort of had um they were of the opinion sort of making our motion that goes to town meeting as simple as possible and in their recommendation they sort of qualified it as that this is the way to obligate all of our remaining Opera funds by the deadline of um December 31st 2024 um we have our annual uh property tax exception for eligible seniors um and that will be at 12% um Article 4 is really just a cleanup article from May um we had basically uh a a typographical error um and we had when we accepted the gift from the hington area land trust we referenced um map 18 lot 100 as opposed to map 27 and so that's just to make this correction before we right complete that transaction um Article 5 will authorize uh a a borrowing for water main replacement project um up to a million dollars um and that was built into our rate conversation previously and so when Dan ma um and Britney gave that presentation this is the project that they were talking about y um CP CPC is recommending a uh feasibility study uh with the city of Framingham to uh look at was sh Pond and to sort of restore it they've had a lot of issues around CYO bacteria and this will be the first step to hopefully um rectifying that issue um and the City of Framingham is paying 75% of the study and we have agreed to pay 25 and that's with that 18,000 750 is I'm sorry is that coming out of the recreation bucket it is coming out of the undes undesignated fund okay thank you you're welcome um article s is uh accepting a new bylaw and that is the blight bylaw which you received a presentation from um our Building Commissioner duck Scott and that's really just giving um the building department health department and actually police and fire can also be enforces um a tool that if there is a blighted property and soort of the Bogue does go into definition of what that would be um some tools to help the homeowner get into compliance um there is also um it would also create um a database of vacant property so if there is a vacant property that they would Reg and that we we would be aware of it I can I just like to say something with respect to that the um town of native does not have anything like this and when they saw this language they may just take it and run with it that's great yes so great job for getting that done still got to go through town meeting so kind of a fee associated with that that would be nice like a findest fee or something yeah that would be nice we can yeah I like that um article eight is the MBTA communities um zoning bylaw and I think that has been plenty of discussion sort of around that the planning board has had its hearing and they have um voted to recommend it at town meeting good um and then the last article is article number nine and that's the purchasing of open spaceand in the Town Forest so 52 Acres which we've also previously discussed here I think the only change since the last time you've looked at the warrant is that we did add a funding note so we sort of discussed that um and sort of highlighted the the sources um it doesn't need to be in the article or the motion but we sort of just kept it there um on the bottom just again for a little bit more uh information for the voters as you go out of town down U Myrtle Street whereabouts does that begin that property so actually so if if you go as you go by Winter Street right yep so it borders Southern border borders Winter Street right and so as you're going along you'll see some houses and it runs along behind there and um I would say you'll get to the Town Line where that's there's that other road that goes into like a little residential the other end of Winter Street yeah um and so that's pretty much the nor the manag of the property okay I'd be happy to take you there would we would we have a map at town meeting yeah that' be good that we can show exactly like what me we'll have a couple slides just one a plot plan and then also just the break down yeah part it actually that um the high tension wires kind of trans it's that's on the other side of the street though isn't it the high high tension wires go through I only look over it where it's wide open over that way cuz that's private property over there that pretty wide open space with high if you're thinking on like if you're going north towards Fram you're looking at to the right as Jimmy's property who whose property Jim oh um and then if go left that's kind of the property right yeah okay so of these there's really only one that the select board would address or would we okay so tax exemption property tax exemption and then the blight bylaw or the okay okay okay Joe would you like to do the property tax exemption you typically do I do okay okay anyone want to do the in and really it's just an intro like to the blight bylaw it's discussion you know very short and sweet as to what it is will the Board of Health Endor Doug be doing a presentation um we're still figuring out exactly how that's going to go okay so let us know and then if you need one of us then we can figure that out yeah I'm happy to okay but I but I would want backup well it would be so typically it would be somewhat not a you know because they'll go into detail in slides it's a brief introduction of int yeah yeah yeah we'll let you take it Brandy if you don't mind that's you know I will say out of all of these I've articles I've probably received the most calls emails Etc people stopping me about the the blight bylaw so I'm not surprised yeah good or bad or just yeah what are the questions Michael um so I think it's it's generally uh not very much in the way of questions it's uh just a philosophical um you know really discussion of government over government over overreach versus kind of maintaining you know public health and safety and um is this possibly going to T to a conversation like the last time when Chief Davis was Joe you know you never know what town meeting um you never know but I no I I do think there's obviously a philosophical there could be a philosophical difference here and that's I mean that's what town meeting is for you know is it is it philosophical but also sort of like um more uh implementation minded I.E like I think we had a conversation about this when when Doug came and and talked to us about this like you know I think one of the concerns that we talked about when he came up was you know how people can use neighbors can use this as a punitive measure against each other right so those the sort of concerns that you're hearing from from people as well or is it really just more like the government it's more of thing it's really like who the heck is the government to tell me like how high my grass can be you know and and I think you know it's interesting you know I think there's probably some room for discussion at town meeting and maybe some compromise to be reached you know maybe some things in the bylaw you know need to get modified or yeah you know that's what town meeting is for exactly exactly they haven't been I mean they haven't been bad conversations they've actually been really good and I mean one person yesterday I'm like we're just going to disagree on this one because yeah you you think it's a homeowners assoc like it reads like a homeowners association thing I feel like it's got a like a health and safety component to it and I do think that there is a line yeah um and uh that's that's yeah everybody makes their best argument and I'm glad people are paying attention and we enough to to reach out and ask questions so that's good okay anything else are you doing a town manager Forum have you decided yeah next T Tuesday five Tuesday at five okay great and that's and that's both zoom in in person or is it yeah yep okay okay good moving on to we need to vote on the Warren Barn plan so we have the most updated mou in our package so uh J I believe Jen you're working on this if you could take us through what changes we have seen or they've agreed to and then we can have any other discussion and then take a vote on this sure sure I can do that um so there's not a ton of changes since the last time we met and presented so I think when we presented it last time I sort of cautioned and said that we hadn't had a full conversation um with um Framingham State University but that we were proposing you know really around the how we're going to split Revenue um for the long-term lease of the barn um and so um there was just really One Small Change on that so that is on page four um if you look at the facility use Revenue um they did um accept the idea that 40% of Revenue would go to their project management um company uh currently flick for project man I for property management excuse me um that includes sort of their cost but then also um ongoing utilities and uh general maintenance and that's within that 40% and we would take 10% and put in a facilities maintenance and that's sort of for some of the bigger maintenance things that might pop up and that way we're at least planning ahead um and then the remaining 50% would be split equally between the town and FSU um we were sort of hoping um for two of two waved fees so two events that we could have two activities or events at the facility with completely wave fees um they weren't really able to do that because that is how their property management um company sort of becomes whole and so what we agreed to is that they would wave all the fees except for the project the the property maintenance and so they'll do that for themselves as well as ours so it'll be at a reduced at a reduced fee um we were sort of thinking like maybe that's where we'd have a retreat or we'd have some other Town sponsored event there but just so real quick that's just for the use of that facility correct right so if we want to go to their to the to the White House or to the lodge that isn't covered this is specifically for this new facility okay that makes sense and then there's no rental cost associated with public skate events at all so that doesn't sort of working for the public for the public for us because they're not going to have ice skates you're basically bring your own ice skates and skate if you you want okay um some of the other concerns I think you guys had were around liability um so we've been working with them to receive their insurance binder and so they um hold a 1 million um Dollar General Liability their project their sorry their um management company also has a million and then we also have a million um and so they have some language um and there we're sort of working with them to see if there is a possibility of increasing that would happen in the lease and so um there's some language here that references that um liability will be referenced and worked out in the like forthcoming lease um I don't think that there were any the and then the other is um initially so we are agreeing to pay $1.5 million for our portion of the construction of this project um and initially the mlu had suggested that anything so if the bids come in um and the building is constructed and there was remaining funds available that that would be used for um FFN so the Furnishings um and other programming costs um so what we agreed to was that if it falls under a 100,000 at the end of the day it makes some sense to buy furniture so that it's furnished um if it's above 50% we will we'll split the remaining 5050 in terms of like we we'll get some funding back if it comes in you know significantly under budget um which you know may be sort of wishful thinking in construction but you know we're at least protected that way originally [Music] just a few years ago it was what 1.2 with the mezanine I think yeah with the mezzanine yeah yeah we weren't able to do it when we went out to bid and this was years ago now it's probably yeah I mean it's been I mean we weren't able to even start the project because we didn't have the funding source um and they have done you know they've done some work on they're making a real solid estimate to make sure that we are going to have enough money allocated for this project and so it's pretty close that it's we're we're just the 1.5 really just covers the bar shell yeah I mean there's there's a couple small things that you know maybe we could go back and forth but it's pretty close Okay looks like it's going to be and that the I believe the chillers are already sitting there for the ice skating rink yes cuz they're going to do like a temporary I'm like you drive by and yeah they're waiting for us to work out some final details on a right of access that would allow them to start that so it would be temporary we did talk to them about it so they would be temporary in it as portion on our on our property and then while we're they're under we're under construction they would find a second possible temporary loccation and so um sort of build up that as a Community Asset and then it will be um then it will be there permanently Brandy I think you had a question when I sent it initially about sort of you know would it be there permanently um so they will have a concrete pad that's the plan right now um there are no there not going to be walls it's not going to look like a hockey um it's really going no boards you can like going be no boards so they're actually going to sort of surround it at this point sort of with hay bals or something like that like Pretty Natural so it will look like a a pond um and so there'll be you know some places yeah and I think it will sort of go with the the look and the feel of the barn so there won't be any of those walls that they have to find a place to gotcha take down and find a place and then they're hoping to use that patio for the programming you know if they have a bridal shower or something like that you may use so like use it as like an extension something in the off in the off on the season shoulder so than I just real like so in a couple years like we could have a new YMCA like a nice new community YMCA we can have this community facility over at the waren conference center pretty cool man yeah like I mean lot lots of good stuff going on yeah that's pretty yeah yeah a good swe I just we don't have to Stone Park is a little short too okay uh any sorry I'm trying to move us along okay okay I'm try we're I I don't want you guys complaining when we're trying when we're having to run late um if there's no other questions or comments or concerns if I can get a motion to support the Warren barnu as presented move I'll s okay great we have a motion in a second all those in favor I opposed okay that passes 5 Z thank you very much thank you for all the work thank you for the work and we look forward to progress on that okay next though that's associated with that looking at oh0 40 BS an update on the 40b projects approved by Mass housing the 250 units at the millsite and then 225 units at 61 I'm sure you all saw the email that we received regarding the concerns which I know many of us Echo um we'll see how we move forward but uh Michael update yeah just uh just a quick update so we did get an application in for the mill site after review We deemed that incomplete and so kicked it back um the developer obviously wasn't uh too thrilled with that but uh agreed to resubmit um and we're still waiting for that application so that's important because again once we get that application it's reviewed it's deemed complete and it gets stamped in that's when the clock starts so we would have 30 days question even though subed it and it wasn't complete the clock doesn't stop the clock doesn't start yeah that's correct so um so yes I I do anticipate you know having that um having that come in well it's already Wednesday so uh so it could be in by Yeah by end of this week or next week um and then actually the uh the other one on Waverly Street uh we did reach out and U you know obviously they've received their site eligibility letter from Mass Housing and um they of course were aware of it and they basically said we'll submit it when we submit it they didn't really have a time I would say we don't need to reach out to them again and let's see if they wait a little while to get it submitted that'd be actually easier in regards to timing and and the work that needs to be done okay yeah and just yeah just so you know I mean we are kind of you know as Carrie in the YMCA talked about you know you just see kind of the Ducks floating along the the pond surface but there's a lot of stuff churning underneath and so you know we have been working to get peer reviewers and and starting to to line all of that up so wonderful okay any other questions or comments on that we haven't heard any any from any of the ABS at the 61 Street site I know when this first came out yeah I mean once once something gets filed there isn't a butter notification and things like that yeah they haven't filed yet they the W when they file with theba filed with with the zba they gave us their through Mass housing we were notified that they were and then that whole process that we went through but because nothing has been filed the butters have not been needed to be okay okay moving on oh okay um so our calendar for the rest of the year so obviously we have a meeting today we then have town meeting on the 19th so we will not be meeting on the 20th we're not meeting two nights in a row uh then obviously Thanksgiving week we have our meeting on Wednesday the 4th we typically do not do our second meeting but please leave that night open because we typically get together to uh discuss um our holiday our holiday season so it's a social it's a social event so just don't don't uh don't fill your calendar with something else on the 18th okay uh one thing I do want to bring up we did not put the nove the December the I'm sorry the January calendar on here we can't meet on January 1st which would be our first meeting of the year because it's a holiday uh so that means we wouldn't meet until the 15th with everything going on we may need to add another meeting um in January so be thinking about that as you're looking at your January calendar um I don't know when it will be yet it'll depend on what the meeting needs to be about and um what else is going on so just be aware that we will most likely add a second meeting in January um and then just while we're talking about it the MMA is the 23rd 24th and 25th um if you're planning if you'd like to go ask Susan and she'll register you um if anyone else goes on Friday they have a great it's the weimo lunch in and that's always a great event so I know Michael's not as eager about it recently no I I don't go to the weo event no not the weimo event but okay uh let's see I heard you took care of a lot of the reminders and the consent agenda as well as the update on the select board room and technology so I believe all that's left is priority project updates yeah I can do this fairly quickly okay um Thanks Jen uh so downtown so they did start working on um on the Front Street side uh it's 102 Property Maintenance um of course they've uh hit rock ledge um I'm like there's like nothing there so um so they're they're working through that um they did uh they are going to come back back next week um I did let them know that they could work on Monday um as it is a town project um so they're typically exempt from from any of those uh any of those restrictions but um yeah so already we're a couple of days behind schedule but uh hopefully they'll be able to make that up pretty quick um and then we've got the bids uh you know working on getting the bids out for the actual electrical connections too because the goal is to really kind of have this seamless as soon as uh 102 Property Maintenance gets done with the excavation work um and laying the conduit you can just bring the electricians in and and stuff and the good news is 102 Property Maintenance actually has an electrician on their team and they look like they're going to try to bid but you know it's to the lowest bidder so we'll see um so there's that um 26 I think I did update you on this actually oh yeah real um H when have all I mean I'm hoping that all the business owners have been notified as to when they're going to be affected um and if we could maybe also somehow make this available to the public so they aware or I'm not quite sure how we might do that but we could put it on the project page okay but yeah all the businesses so it's required that um before they start work on a property they have to give them a week's notice ahead of time okay um and it gives them the opportunity to kind of work around hours and and all that good stuff I'd hate for them to be impacted too much by this um and same with the cutover right when the cutover happens they'll be given notification of the window of because they the electricity will have to be cut and then reconnected okay yeah so and just a quick question so I know that the weeks of work that we're looking at um has you know this kind of spaced out over nine weeks are they going to be able to to be able to if the ground freezes are they going to be able to continue to work like is that if the ground freezes it would be a little bit more difficult but um you know just based on history things do freeze anymore I mean it's 80 degrees today yeah I mean last year it didn't freeze really um it didn't the year before I mean we were pouring concrete in November like this crazy so we don't think at least for the relatively short term that there would be any issues any issues no still working through maybe well there's no such thing so you know right so it's all it's all it's all a dream any other questions or comments on the downtown anything else on downtown okay Michael keep going thank you so 126 I think I did uh let you know but just in case I didn't Verizon is actually out there um and moving the um moving the wires yeah so so that's a huge huge um yeah it's it's magic Claudia um and you know I don't know if you've noticed they have um we have really tried to get them to clean up some of the area a little bit I see a little bit of a of a difference nothing that you know I'm really excited about but making some efforts yeah okay nothing else okay um we're going to do board reports and then we'll go into exec session if anybody has anything uh no just uh are we doing the board reports now yeah board reports and then we'll go into exec session so okay uh yeah just really quickly I wanted to acknowledge the T the effage of the Town Clerk and uh and and volunteers for yesterday's uh federal election and and uh Massachusetts election I guess too um you know I think it's it it's it speaks volumes about how smoothly and how professionally things were run yesterday in the town of Ashland we have a lot to be proud of um so I just wanted to shout out the the staff and the volunteers that made that happen uh successfully and I also want to give a shout out to waca TV and their exceptional election coverage uh throughout so that's that's it that's it for me could I just yeah go ahead Michael Sor yeah Makita that's okay before you sorry M no no no no no you're fine no no you remind I was like oh I've got these numbers yeah so yeah it's all good yeah and and thank you for acknowledging Cindy and her team they did an amazing job um we actually had about a 76% turnout um which was um about 10% less than than the last presidential election but still a lot compared to you know a um a local um so we had uh 9,86 total voters um and that excludes some of the the absentee voters um and those can't be counted until 5:00 p.m.

in the library if you want to start a garden if you just want to talk to other people about gardening like I said it's an open meeting at like I said 10:00 at the library they meet downstairs in one of the smaller meeting rooms and you can I think find information I think they have a website as well I should have known that and then a couple things coming up next week we have a ribbon cutting for Chase Bank which is Wednesday and a chess company on the 15th I don't have the exact name Chess Masters there we go so it's great to see these new businesses coming in and really bringing different things to Ashland uh and that is all I have just a reminder for everyone town meeting is Tuesday November 19th and hopefully we'll see you there uh does anyone have the page for the exact I can borrow it there you go perfect well thank you all it is uh 9:30 we are ending early but we are moving into an ex session so pursuant to General Law chapter 30A section 21 A6 to consider the purchase exchange lease or value of real property identified on the ashon assessor map it is totaling 53.5 Acres as an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the ongoing negotiating position of the public body and as I as chair I've determined that the public discussion may have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the board if I could have a motion to go into exec session and to not come back into public session Second Great uh let's do a roll call vote in Keegan I Bennett hi manani hi Kinsman hi and Greaves I again thank you very much we are wrapping up our meeting uh it is 9:30 please hopefully we'll see you at the November 19th town meeting at the ashon high school at 700 p.m.

on Friday November 8th but um on Election Day we had actually almost 3600 people vote on Election Day um and uh almost uh 2,000 voted early in person and um 4,200 people voted by mail so yeah so anyway sorry I didn't include that in my initial report that's okay thanks for reminding me Mita Claudia yeah I was thinking I've been busy but then I was thinking well wait a second we just had a meeting last week so so I I don't have much to report on but I just did want to e Echo makita's uh comments about you know the work that happens behind the scenes when we vote and uh you know I'm certainly in the last couple of years seen seen just how extensive it is um and and really because we do vote on so many days now the their work starts much earlier and goes on for you know even even after election day so um so definitely it's U they did a great job I don't think we made the news for running out of ballots or anything so so uh congratulations to us thank you very good okay Joe thank you madam chair uh Echoes uh the sentiments from both Makita and uh to Claudia with respect to the uh efforts of the U clerk's office uh last Saturday um I was very happy to at least provide an hour's worth of uh coverage to the uh select board's uh office hours at the library it was very nice uh we had um while I was there we did have a very uh meaningful conversation about a bunch of things that uh were going on in the town by a couple of residents and greatly appreciated and uh I just like to remind people that on November 12th it's uh veter the veterans luncheons at the uh Community Center thank you yes Community Center and it's being sponsored by the Ashland fire and Ashland police departments uh starting at noon time I will be there hope to see others there as well and um that's it that's all I have Madam chair thank you Brandy so I will also be really quick because we just met last week um just wanted to um let folks know that the community center um is still looking for volunteers for the holiday program um so if if you would like to be a donor um and either adopt a family a family or a child um you could also decide to do filler gifts or you can donate gift cards um they are still looking for volunteers to help with the program so um please reach out to our Human Services team um Courtney Laughlin is like they still have a form to where you can sign up that's on the website yes and I think it's on our website too so um so people can can use that to to um to sign up and and and and you know we are probably about a month away from when gifts need to be delivered so um we'll all probably be getting our our you know familes information pretty soon so um so if you're able to help sign up thank you yeah and just to um what was I going to say I was going to add to that now I can't remember oh Michael could you maybe bump that up in your newsletter this this week um you know just put the link maybe to the donor form oh right up at the in the early because you know you have to dig down to get to it yeah I mean and I was yeah we were talking like I'll probably put like some personal appeals out there too like because we are behind a little bit yeah we are a little bit behind from previous years um really yeah we have the same number of kids just a little fewer donors um we'll do some sort of more directed Outreach but um yeah you have a list of people who did it last year who we always reach out to them yeah yeah so we always reach out and um they're sort of cross referencing now um and certainly things are coming in I think they told me like four or five came in last night you know since Friday we've had like seven or eight I think it's hard when it's 80 to think about holidays you know it's like this sort weird Vortex but the time like you know it's sticking away here so um it would be great if people wanted to donate and just haven't got around to it would be great y okay that's it for me okay couple things dog park update the dog park thanks to Jen's work and our designer we went before concom on Monday night they had to extend it because we don't have our D number and the goal is to we are going to planning board on the 14th uh and the goal is shovel in the ground sometime in the spring it's looking really nice and we want we need to get it in by February so that we are still eligible for the Stanton Grant which is half of our funding uh tomorrow night I am meeting with open space and wreck as well as with Becca to review the new timeline to work with them to get the open space and wreck plan completed uh if you're interested Garden Club is meeting on Saturday at 10: a.m.

uh because we are open town meeting you do have to show up to be able to participate and hopefully we'll see you there and that wraps up the meeting uh the Open session of our meeting for Wednesday November 6 thanks for watching and hope to see you soon and if not Happy Thanksgiving let us

in the library if you want to start a garden if you just want to talk to other people about gardening like I said it's an open meeting at like I said 10:00 at the library they meet downstairs in one of the smaller meeting rooms and you can I think find information I think they have a website as well I should have known that and then a couple things coming up next week we have a ribbon cutting for Chase Bank which is Wednesday and a chess company on the 15th I don't have the exact name Chess Masters there we go so it's great to see these new businesses coming in and really bringing different things to Ashland uh and that is all I have just a reminder for everyone town meeting is Tuesday November 19th and hopefully we'll see you there uh does anyone have the page for the exact I can borrow it there you go perfect well thank you all it is uh 9:30 we are ending early but we are moving into an ex session so pursuant to General Law chapter 30A section 21 A6 to consider the purchase exchange lease or value of real property identified on the ashon assessor map it is totaling 53.5 Acres as an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the ongoing negotiating position of the public body and as I as chair I've determined that the public discussion may have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the board if I could have a motion to go into exec session and to not come back into public session Second Great uh let's do a roll call vote in Keegan I Bennett hi manani hi Kinsman hi and Greaves I again thank you very much we are wrapping up our meeting uh it is 9:30 please hopefully we'll see you at the November 19th town meeting at the ashon high school at 700 p.m.

and 7 p.m. on Saturdays last month theater also competed in their first detas comp of the year out of 55 Schools Granite placed fourth and all of the competitors made it to semi-finals with three of those groups making it to finals with honorable mentions our mock trial team had their first competition last night against Victor Valley high school and we are very happy to announce that we brought home our first one of the Season as one of the team captains I'm extremely proud of this team we have grown so much in the last three years this year the team has a new coach and 18 members for the first time in almost eight years we are extremely thankful to Senor Espin for coaching this year because without him we couldn't do it our next competition will be on November 13th at 5: pm.

calling the meeting to order roll call Maria opara present Rick Ry is absent Gary Ry here Amanda buenon here Dennis Bender is absent and so we have a quorum we have three board members per board board by law 9 9250 remuneration reimbursement and other benefits I'm requesting the superintendent bring forward a resolution for ratification to consider at the December 12 2024 board board meeting regarding board compensation due to board member absences this evening Miss White will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance you should never look at me like that I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much kie do we have any public comments pertaining to closed session we do not thank you close session item number one superintendent evaluation number two people Personnel expulsion cases expulsion number 22425 through expulsion number 52425 stipulate stipulated expulsion number 2 2425 and stipulated uh number 3 2425 revocation of expulsion case expulsion number 22 2324 and annual review continue case AR number 3 2425 conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation 11 cases civd s 20 cvsb 211 1303 222 0303 221 8676 231 4073 23 2412 359 2412 687 232 1161 2 44404 4 and CVS 24289 Government code section 5495 4.5 subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D subsection D and subsection e and subsection I anticipated litigation one case 2020 2105 number four Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees number five Public Employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees number six conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Jeremiah Harrison employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Christine Dupri employee organization California School Employees Association security matters government code section 54957 consultation with Apple Valley Unified School District chief of police and I ask for a motion to go into close session so move and I'll second all in favor I any opposed we shall return e e e Maria oara I am here brick Ry is absent Gary RC here Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender is absent um Camila will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for here yes good evening everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I would like to say that the board appreciates and supports our educational Partners input at our meetings engagement by members of the public and Civic matters is a Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within the guidelines the board has established for its meetings so that we are able to conduct the meeting effectively and efficiently during the meeting there will be time for the public to comment on matter not on the agenda in addition members of the public May comment on specific agenda items after I as your board president ask for public comment on an item until it is your turn to speak or if you are here just to observe the meeting please refrain from any behavior that prevents others from participating in the meeting or that disrupts the board's ability to conduct the business of the board once again thank you very much for taking your time to join us this evening and to be a participant in this duty of serving our students and our educational Community before I start I need to welcome our superintendent from uh Snow Line School District thank you wearing [Laughter] his all right uh reports from student Representatives Rio Vista School of Applied learning um speakers are Brooklyn strubing Lucas hamstrom Elina Sushi Camila Rivero Caitlyn wheeler and Austin Manson can you please go and address us thank you [Applause] good evening Apple Valley Unified School District board members Administration and guests my name is Brooklyn stoping and I am the Rio Vista Associated student body president with me tonight I have my vice president Lucas hamerson secretary Elana soill Spirit commissioner Camila Rivero Pride commissioner Caitlyn wheeler and our reading commissioner Austin Monson tonight we are going to share with you some of the exciting things happening at Rio Vista but first we have an activity for you my name is luk go my name is Lucas hamstrom I'm the vice president of rioa ASB for the month of November we like to take a moment and think of something we're thankful for each day even when you're having a bad bad morning you can always think of something you're thankful for focusing on the good good in your life can can help you I'm thankful for my family and friends what's something you're thankful for do you want an answer from us share with your shoulder partner the person sitting next [Laughter] [Music] you go ahead my name my name is Ilana suel and I am the ASB secretary I am the notetaker attendance manager and the president and vice president's right-hand man did you know that we attend our booster club's monthly meetings ASB tries to collaborate closely with school's booster club to support and enhance Student Activities this partnership allows us to pull resources and Club ideas ensuring that we can provide enriching experiences for students from community events to academic and activities the booster has been instrumental in helping us fund and organize events and we're grateful for the support and com commitment to to our school Community my name is Camila and I am the spirit commissioner last week we celebrated Red Ribbon Week Rio Vista ASB members visited many of our classrooms to read a story and do a fun activity we dressed we had dress up days like dress like a celebrity and dress like a villain we had some amazing looking door decorations as well as combining this year's theme and Halloween on October 25th Rio had their annual Fall Festival that brought a ton of people from the community to have a fun night of games ASB members were able to run some of the games and activities my name is Caitlyn wheeler and I'm the pride commissioner we have so many great things happening at Rio Vista this year we have students joining before and after school Eli activities such as yearbook Club Advanced Cricket beginning Cricket tutoring art flag football Esports and running club we have fun providing Friday games at lunches working the brownie Point stores and helping out at attendance parties we love to be a big help in to those in need we have recently started our TA jobs and are helping out in different classrooms to show our knowledge and understanding of how Rio Works hello my name is Austin and I am the reading commissioner we have a lot of fun upcoming events at Rio Vista kindness week is up next R Vista loves to create kindness change and do the great kindness challenge we are excited to get back into the class rooms with our Thanksgiving and thankful books kids here at Real Vista love to read and listen to our butts books that are read by the ASB reading committee speaking of reading we just filled out our fancy new book vending machines where students can earn coins to buy books here are some coins for you to hand out whenever you're on campus I want two thank you so much as you can see like our shirts say we service with pride lead with confidence and Inspire to impact lives thank you for letting us share some of the wonderful things going on at Rio Vista with you we hope you have a wonderful night [Applause] thank you so much Hi Desert Premier Academy Giana [Applause] Perez oh my goodness okay good evening president okara esteemed board members superintendent Nelson executive cabinet and Apple Valley Unified staff students families and community members I'm Gianna Perez a senior at High Desert Premier Academy last month Mr Smith had another coffee with the principal he says he got some great ideas from the parents who came a big thank you to all of them hdpa also hosted their first paint and pizza with the families it turned out great for our first event we painted the night before before Christmas and ate pizza while enjoying the company of staff from the school Mr Nelson Lopez compos shared information to the group about how hdpa is working to become a community school on October 28th our PE class took a trip to Top Golf and each one of us had a blast it was very fun on Monday November 4th a group of our graphic design and communication students went to Universal Studios for a pyro and Technology lesson we learned about how technology and Pyro Technics is used during video production we also were able to experience a behind thes scenes look at Water World and the back lot on November 11th is Veterans Day thank you to all those veterans that have served our country and or is serving our country on Friday November 2 2nd is substitute Appreciation Day shout out to all those substitute teachers who take the time to come in and teach when we need them special shout out to miss picket and Mr Coleman for always being there for us National family literacy month is an annual designation observed in November this month get your whole family snuggled up on the couch open up a good book and with this we hope you have an amazing Thanksgiving break and I look forward to seeing all of you next [Applause] month thank you very much appoval High School Eden [Applause] poolo thank you good evening members of the board and attendees I'm un poo the Ala Valley High School associate student body line president and I hope you had an amazing fall break tonight I'll be sharing with you what our students staff have been doing this last month as well as our goals for November first I would like to announce that we had an fantastic wasque visit this week where our visiting Community came to review all aspects of our school they confirmed that subal pride is contagious and many wonderful things during the readout the full report will be released in February and second I mentioned in the last meeting that some of our students in ASB had the opportunity to tour for the class of 7374 well recently we received a very complimentary letter from a retired rear Admiral Reserve during her Lum visit to abhs she commented that they enjoyed the tour and it was an amazing experience in athletics our sun lils are always Excel as well as we are ending the fall Sports we have been ending the season very successfully some of our cross country Runners have made it to the top 10 in the mrl and will be racing in CIF the tennis and volleyball girls were both selected by their peers to receive the mve river League sportsmanship award the volleyball girls advaned all the way to the quarterfinals of CIF their overall record Being 19 to1 and our tennis girls are proud to be the ml champions in which in fact the last time girlss tennis won League was in 1999 we are very proud of these young ladies and boys as they've been outstanding All Season football won their last games one of them being their last home game winning 47 to zero although I'm very sad that the football season is almost over but we were so excited to see them Advance the CIF and we wouldn't have done it without our cheer score Squad bring the school spirit to every game the Sportsman team for keeping our athletes safe and healthy the football and cheer coaches our camp for capturing all the sports highlights and as well as our school programs they have been very successful as well we had five FFA officers attend the National FFA convention in Indianapolis and one of our sundal Lawson seard was one of the four in the nation in the proficiency competition and Sheet production mask Camp Graphics represented avhs C programs at the High Desert education Summit AT BBC and recently we had avhs had 56 stud students qualified to attend the state seal of biliteracy last night at Oak Hills these students are on track to graduation from high school with a special seal on their High School diplomas indicating that they're proficient in a second or third language we are very proud of our outstanding students and all they have accomplished in the month of October and even though the fall sports are coming to a close we are very excited to start the winter sports and here are some of the sports starting the season we have boys and girls basketball and we did have boys basketball have their first game today boys girls and soccer wrestling girls and football girls softball sorry and baseball and of course Esports so we wish them luck this season and we can't wait to see what exciting news they will bring to our school there are many exciting things happening at Apple Valley high school and I want to thank you all for continued support we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities without you and thank you for your time and I hope you guys have a wonderful and fulfilling Thanksgiving season [Applause] Gran Hills High School Hannah F every time good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the governing council president at gar Hills High School and I have a lot of wonderful news tonight ASB has been very busy and very busy fundraising and planning events in October we held a Wing Stop and chipotle fundraiser that combined brought in over $300 for our program last week we had a spirit week for Halloween and our La yeah our last football game of the year Monday for our spirit week was fall colors Tuesday meme day Wednesday class colors and a Halloween themed rally Thursday Halloween costumes and Friday was blackout for our student section theme the pep Ry went incredible and our students had a lot of fun the decorations were also really good this month ASB has a lot planned we're hosting a door decorating contest as well as one more spirit week before Thanksgiving break to show cougar Pride theater held their second annual Harvest Festival and it had a great turnout theater's also currently getting ready for opening night of Adam's Family the musical that takes place tomorrow at 7.m I recommend you come on and watch they're doing incredible it'll be showing at Granite this weekend next weekend 7 P.M on Fridays and 2 p.m.

our CTE programs are continuing to prepare for skills USA and our excited for this year's competition our SK students met with industry professionals from Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District yesterday to receive hands-on experience in training for successful careers in environmental monitoring compliance and SCA technology as for athletics boys and girls tennis won lead titles in all the varsity players got League patches girls tennis got second place in league and made to the first round of CIF girls golf girls golf also got second place in league and made to playoffs as well as volleyball who also plays second and made to playoffs our football season also just ended finishing five and four they played well and had a great season overall our fall sports did incredible each team also held senior nights to say goodbye to the graduating seniors and wish them luck on their next Endeavors they will all be incredibly missed our winter sports are now getting ready to start next week I hope you all have a great month and a good Thanksgiving break and in honor of Thanksgiving I would like to give all of our school staff District employees teachers and my fellow ASV members a very Happy Thanksgiving and a lot of thanks we thank you for your continued support of Granite Hills and I look forward to sharing more with you next month as always m and gray lead the way thank you so much um board comments Amanda Buchanan so good evening everyone um I did want to begin by saying thank you to all the incredible students that are here um great use of Kagan strategies and our Champs over there at RI Vista that presentation um but it's always inspiring to hear directly from our students about your experiences and achievements going on at your schools so last month I had the opportunity to attend the fall joint meeting where the focus was on the future of work and it was a powerful discussion that featured many of our industry Partners um as well as a phenomenal student representative that was from another um school down the hill but it's clear that the collaboration between our schools and local Industries is Paving the way for exciting opportunities for our students congratulations to our district for receiving such a prestigious award in our AVID program uh it brings me joy when we can collectively celebrate these accomplishments um I also had the pleasure of attending the final football games of the season for both granite and Apple Valley high school so I was at both of those um both events showcased incredible school spirit and Community Pride additionally I'd like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to the newest doctor in our district Dr agard from Granite Hills High School what an outstanding accomplishment for her and the school um another highlight of the month was the Apple Valley High School wasque visit uh thank you to the staff for inviting me to participate and for your hard work in preparing for this important Milestone I was also honored to attend the Seal of biliteracy awards ceremony last night celebrating those students who had achieved this prestigious recognition these students are a testament to the hard work and dedication it takes to achieve fluency in multiple languages a skill that will serve them um later in life well in their Futures I'm always jealous by the way of people that speak more than one language and some of them were listing off like two extra last night it was very impressive I'd also like to recognize our teachers for their unwavering commitment to the community outreach their participation in events like the town's Trunk or Treat create lasting memories for our family and my children for instance always look forward to the books that they receive um I think they even were looking forward to the books more than the candy at the Town trunk Retreat um the line was very long and they were like it needs to move the books are going to be gone but they weren't there was tons the teachers were well prepared um and then finally as a small gesture of appreciation I did bring some leftover Halloween candy that I didn't get to hand um so if any of the students and children in the audience um once president Oar excuses you please feel free to come up and grab a candy bar on your way out because if you don't eat it I will and I don't want to eat it um so thank you as always I am proud of the remarkable work happening across our district so have a great Thanksgiving month and that's it for me thank you so much Mr Ry I also want to compliment all our students it's always the highlight of our board meetings to to to see you show up and to to let us know what's going on on your campuses so so thank you so much for all the time and energy and and the effort that you put into to serving your campuses it's always a joy to hear from you I was also able to to visit um Rancho verie last month and I was just just really impressed by all the things going on there at that campus I learned about the new reading Intervention Program which has been expanded to the upper grades they have a new reading Resource Center which has valuable resources and and additional intervention strategies and support for students in their reading so um kudos to that I also saw the new Arts attack program and and the campus beautification that's involved in that and and all the the skill that the students are exercising in that Mr Shelton has done an outstanding job in their in their campus Garden uh teaching the students about uh plant biology and plant growth and soil characteristics and so on so I was really impressed with with with what's going on there on the garden so thank you very much to Mr CR and all the staff at Ranch over some great things going on there also want to congratulate Mrs Pon and her hardworking staff at the Apple Valley Virtual Academy uh don't know how many people are aware but uh getting close to 200 students are involved in our Virtual Academy and what this does is it supp uh supplies extra support for students who are on an atome independent study program and I just want to thank her and her staff for the new parent training workshops that they're involved in the new library resource area that they have there which which is supplying students with um extra courses and extra support that they need and I also had a chance to visit Granite Hills High School last month so I want to congratulate Mr pal and all the the staff there for the work that they're doing uh I was able to uh visit some math classes uh some foreign language classes I was especially thrilled to be able to uh go going back to the age of the dinosaurs remember some of my high school French as we visited some some foreign language classes so it's nice to to to exchange a few pleasantries in French with the students there uh every class I visited math classes foreign language classes special ed classes everywhere I visited students were engaged and on task and the teachers were uh in in involved in such Innovative practices was really impressed uh kind of the Highlight for me was to to visit one of the the CTE baking classes and as as Mrs uh Buchanan mentioned you know there's so many students so many more students now involved in our our skills USA competition and so I visited a baking class and the students were working on on cinnamon rolls that day and my only disappointment you didn't get it was that uh we arrived too early in the day and uh the cinnamon rolls were not ready so I I sadly with with great sorrow had to leave that classroom without being able to sample the cinnamon rolls but uh I've sampled some of their their products in the past and they always do such outstanding work so just want to say a big thank you to all the students and staff throughout throughout the district who are doing such great things every day please have a wonderful Veterans Day holiday this month thank you very much to our our men and women in uniform and please have a safe and restful Thanksgiving break this this uh this month thank you thank you very much um I guess it's my turn um I'm going to start by saying thank you all for giving us the opportunity to serve you sitting from this end uh it's not always easy to come up with the right words um and to say the way it should come out um as you can tell everybody here has an accent but me so um but I'm going to make it work um I had the opportunity to visit two schools um this month no last month um for the Halloween uh parade um I anybody that knows me knows that anytime you put me in front of kids I'm worse than the kids and so I dance so much with those kids I have never enjoyed Michael Jackson songs as much as I did on those days and those kids made me feel so young um so I went to um Mariana school and there was a a Halloween parade and uh every single kid that came through gave me high five so it felt so good and then we went on to go to syar rocks to enjoy their um Halloween parade it it was such a joy um just to see the kids and also to see the parents that came out dressed for the occasion and I thought what are you dressed up for this morning um but they wanted to show their kids that they could also enjoy enjoy U the events that we put together in our schools then I had the um the joy of um going as the plus one to the Avid impact um ceremony as you can see this blinking light uh I thought that was an error for them to give it it give it to me because I have a tendency to play with buttons but here it is uh we won that impressive award and um and to see our and to hear our name being called in that room felt so good um that something was happening at our schools and um that the county actually recognizes what we do in a small town like Appo Valley uh and then um we went to um um the wor visit last uh Sunday um I have to say because I bleed Orange everywhere I go um not today um but because I bleed orange I was so ecstatic when I saw them and I wanted them to just see the whole picture of the school and I didn't know when to stop and I kept saying ask them this and tell them this let them show you because there was so much about our schools that I think a stranger or a visitor needs to hear about the great things happening at our schools and sometimes we don't say enough of it um and then um I went to the Seal of biliteracy yesterday with trustee um bonan and the superintendent and a few of the administrative team to celebrate our kids who speak more than one language and I felt so at home and I told the superintendent I don't speak English I don't speak English um that's because I speak seven languages so they kind kind of come in my head um many people who hear me speak um will will think I should be speaking faster and it is because I am translating the words that come to me in different languages and trying to put them in the right place so that it doesn't come out wrong so I really appreciate those students who uh who've taken the time to learn another language on top of what they already have um learning a language is not easy um I I speak those languages I'd never when I didn't go to school for some of them it was through immersion so I don't remember how I got it uh but I have it and sometimes I don't use all of them um but occasionally when that word is said I I think okay I hear what you're saying um uh um but uh I have to say that the veterans uh holiday is coming and Mrs Nelson and I have a special um um relationship with Veterans Day happen happens to be my late mother's birthday and it happens to be her late father's birthday so we kind of share that day um as a Veterans Day uh and we think about it and we think about our families that have paid the ultimate price and if you have family that has um paid the ultimate price in the veterans being a veteran of this country please H think about them celebrate them and and thank the people who stood by them um when they went off to war um Thanksgiving is coming uh I wish you all a great Thanksgiving it is not a tradition that I know of I did not grow up with that so I'm always looking for people who are cooking so I can go to their homes and eat you know so I wish you all the very best and thank you so much to um Camille for agreeing to uh lead the uh Pledge of Allegiance I know it's not always easy but when I come out of close session I pick a student because we're here to serve a student and I like them to be able to lead the pledge um I really really adore each and every one of you children I don't have any of mine here so you are you all become mine uh and I thank you I thank the staff the administration and um the teachers who continue to support you I thank the parents for giving us the opportunity to serve their children that's about all I got out Mrs Nelson well I you know that I pay attention to what the students say because that's what I'm here for right and I love that Rio Vista made us turn to our friends our shoulder partner and tell them what we were thankful for and for those of you that don't know I turned to Kylie and said I'm thankful for you because Kylie is with me every single day she's the executive assistant in the superintendent's office and she gets me to all those appointments at the schools to be with students and in the classrooms and so you guys did a phenomenal job of reminding us to identify those things that we're thankful for um I love that you're out reading to other students I love that you have um a kindness week that you participate in it is near and dear to my heart and I always participate in Rio's kindness week and um go take a string off of one one year gave me the little strings and I had to go and pass them out um elop on your campus after school is phenomenal I know that there's some things happening before school as well but I did get an invite a few weeks ago when I was on campus to stop by and have my nails done um because I hear that there's some some nail art going on so um I'm coming I'm gonna come but I think Zoe and Kylie plan to join me so we'll be by um gaan we met a young man during um superintendent advisory at High Desert Premiere that um told us that he was your boyfriend and he claimed he was going to come with you to the board meeting and I told him he needed to so give him a hard time that he's not here sitting next to you because he said he was your support okay I love that you that you appreciate that but I wanted you to know that I heard him I knew he said to me he was going to be here to support you but um we appreciated his input during student advisory so you can go back and tell them that um top golf is fantastic and I know I knew that you guys were going and you have um High Desert Premiere has done a great job of connecting students to different opportunities in the community um as well as outside of our community and so I look forward to hearing um the other things that you plan to do um with some of those field trips Eden you're right Sund will pride is contagious the wasque team did say it over and over again um the fact that during your CIF report and um talking about football that you recognized all the staff members and all the behind the scenes things that take place um doesn't go unnoticed that's pretty powerful that um you take the time and I think that of all the students you don't just talk about the activities you talk about all the people that make it happen and what you are appreciative of um Hannah um I was able to attend I'm not going to talk about what you talked about um I was able to attend the pep r prior to the football game and so I got to watch all of the stuff that was going on yeah you and Joanna had the mic and we walking I was really there and I absolutely loved it but um what I want to say is you had everybody engaged and everything you did had the students responding and participating and that's what that's all about um the other thing that I will say is Mr Nelson knows we are going to on a date to go see um Adam's family and um just the little bit of dancing that went on during the pep rally hooked me I know it's going to be phenomenal uh and I do appreciate that you brought Jilly with you too sorry Jill um You probably don't go by Jilly um but I've known her since first grade Joanna since she was little too second grade yeah um that's how this works in this District um kids stick around and that's what I think about the elementary students that are here eventually you'll be taking the places of these high school students and you will be reporting and hopefully we're all here to still hear those things and cheer you on because um that's that's why we have you here to see what is happening in other places too um I can confirm that uh Miss opara did dance through all of the um Halloween events that we went to I by mistake um made a scheduled date with her to go over the agenda setting which is the requirement of the board president I did it on the morning that all the parades were taking place she showed up and wondered why I had been so foolish in my attempt to schedule I told her let's get in the car and you can look at the agenda in the car and we will go to the parades which we did um the student advisories have been taking place across the district we've accomplished um uh our beginning with both high schools all three high schools actually and our K through our third through 8th grade fourth through e8th grade advisory which is about 99 um fourth through e8th graders here at the district office and they left with an assignment and I was invited back to Rancho verie this morning to see what they had accomplished um our youth truth survey is something that we value the data from parents staff and students and we want we want to encourage people to participate and be honest in their survey responses and so every group of students has the task of going back and talking to their Administration about how to encourage others to participate and um the ranch of verie kids did a presentation to each fourth fifth and sixth grade group and third graders and it was a PowerPoint and they talked about it they it was short but they gave example questions and they had them respond as to how they would respond to their shoulder partner just like you guys did was pretty cool and so um I know those things are happening out on campus and I just want to encourage everybody to give their true feedback so that we can work for change within the district um I attended the California school boards Association um san berino county and Riverside County Joint meeting as well um it was a great presentation on the workforce in the future for our students um also attended sand dabs on October 30th um this is information for the board you will be um asked to look at the different areas and what you are looking for advocacy they would like feedback from board members so that we can um start working on an advoc py plan both at the federal and and state level um the abbit impact Awards um the district re received the Abid impact award specifically for a tutoring program that we have in the district um the high desert is isolated those of you that all live here know that we don't have access to a four-year University to pull T tutors from we have Victor Valley College so um we don't typically send our funds to other um vendors to like do the work our after school elop programs are run by our staff and our students from the high school paid um student interns to do that and we love that that's the connection that's what the Avid impact award was we struggle to get Avid tutors and so we have an entire group of students that have been trained by Avid here on property to go back out into our schools and train and support students at lower levels and so um it's a promising practice and they wanted to highlight it and so we were very proud that um they recognized um the Avid um tutoring program um seala by literacy is always a highlight for me um we were one of the first districts in the um state to offer the Seal of by literacy many years ago um Erica aprene and um several of the other counselors have been involved Erica in particular has been since the very beginning I remember her finding um Physicians and people out of the country that spoke both English and the language that they were trying to assess a student in it has changed dramatically over the last um 15 18 years and so um the process to which students can become um biliterate and receive that seal has has improved so we don't have to like go all over the world to try to find people to test and and um confirm that these kids are biliterate I also wanted um do a shout out to officer Gotti um he's not here but his boss is and um was on my way to Apple Valley High School for the was grade out this week and officer Gotti was on the corner of be Valley and Navajo um outside of his vehicle watching students cross and um not even on the corner that the school is on and he's out there just talking to kids and I really appreciate that the building of relationship and him knowing who those students are htpa and Phoenix Academy will begin their training for students of um Champions they will be getting a mentoring program that comes out of their Equity multiplier dollars that they've received and um it'll be adults from both sides both classified and certificated um staff and they'll be trained by Jessica sprick of safe and civil schools um and again miss o par already mentioned met Veterans Day has a um dual meaning in my home and um I'm very appreciative of all of our veterans that are um either in the audience or in our community thank you thank you very much thank you so much um the clerk will read out any action no no no before I go there I'm not going there yet uh California School employes Association CA Nicholas Garrett good evening sorry guys um thank you for letting me speak tonight as always no news is good news I really don't have any news I'm just here because our Sunshine proposal is on the agenda and in case anybody has any questions or comments or concerns that that they need me to address I'll be here for that support um I do like to say you students are doing amazing it is like sitting over there listening to everything I'm just like wow that's some great stuff I don't speak but my one language somewhat okay um and just to hear everything and I'm a proud father of a senior this year and this this year is flown by and I can't wait to see what she gets to do in her future but you guys are just amazing so thank you all thank you very [Applause] much apple Val unified Teachers Association avut Karen Sabers kind of nervous with Ryan sitting here it is that it is all right good evening superintendent Nelson board members cabinet and audience I hope everyone's doing well this evening on October 26th Auda participated in the town of Apple Valley trunker tree we once again handed out over a thousand pieces of candy and a thousand books to our students it's always such a fun night and thank you to trusty Buchanan Renee Longshore for being there to help us Anita was missed she was out doing what she does best in her retirement which is traveling as well as Miss akaara I believe you were traveling at the time as well Europe yeah um we do have the town of Apple Valley Christmas tree lighting on December 3rd from 5: to 7 where we will be handing out gloves beanies and other fun toys to our students so if any of you I mean Dustin it's a long story SE he'll take it seventh grade I think it was seventh grade sixth grade yeah I was with Ryan Reynolds I was too it was [Laughter] good a a little better in my world because I shared with cabinet last time I was at the airport I was approached by two different people one telling me I look like George Bush but the younger one and the second one was that I looked like will Ferell and so like people came up so I think Ryan Reynolds in my wife's eyes is a step up so I appreciate that it was good all right I was very impressed with all the classes especially for being the day after Halloween the students were all one task and working hard great job Sandia teachers beginning next week I will be delivering breakfast to all of our members at the different School sites the schedule for the school sites will be sent out to the site reps tomorrow so that the principals will know when myself or another board member will be coming to your school to serve breakfast I'll also be delivering our new shirts to all of our members over the next couple weeks this is a way for us to say thank you to all of our members for your support we hope we start seeing a sea of red on Tuesdays as we move into the holiday months we need to take this time to show each other Grace and compassion these months can be stressful and filled with some challenges for our parents students teachers staff and administrators take the time to show those around you kindness and appreciation I also want to take the time to let our veterans know how much they are appreciated and those in active duty I have to say shout out to my nephew he's an Estonian right now on a mission um thank you have a great Veterans Day and a blessed Thanksgiving break and solidarity [Applause] Karen okay uh the clerk will read out any action taken in Clos session in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent uh item B4 Public Employee dismiss uh discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave on a motion by Mr Ary and seconded by uh miss oara the Board of Trustees approved the recommendation of the Skelly officer regarding the five day suspension of employee number 4865 thank you you the board May approve the agenda as is or ADD and or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion and our action I need a motion so a second all in favor I I okay recognition and presentation can I have Amber please come up with me thanks Ryan sorry Ken you've given me such a great opportunity come on here Amber Miss heightman would you like to come up as well don't it's okay in late September Miss Heyman principal at Sitting Bull Academy reached out to us and wanted to nominate Amber Russell their attendance clerk for the absd living our values recognition I have known Miss Russell since she began working in in our clerical family working at Sandia initially before taking the position at Sitting Bull Academy as their attendance Clerk and while I have witnessed her living our values of dignity Community authenticity and service every time I have been in her presence on September 26th 2024 I was not at all surprised to find out she had stopped on her way to work when she believed she had witnessed a young lady get struck by a passing vehicle it was a pickup truck and the um mirrors on the side of the truck hit the the young lady on the shoulder and the side of the head and um she contacted our school police so Amber pulled over contacted our school Police Department while making sure the young lady was okay the driver felt horrible and stayed with them as well to provide the appropriate information to the police when they arrived a short time after I arrived I to find our Sergeant the driver the young lady and her mother finishing up the report I was aware that the staff that a staff member had also stopped and in my head I thought that was because they had recognized the young lady as a student from sittingbull Academy when I got back to the office I told Kylie that I wanted to find out who the staff member was and that we should recognize them before the board a short time later Zoe and Kylie received an email from Miss Hyman nominating Amber for a recognition and and the Mystery staff member had a name Amber did not stop because she recognized the young lady she stopped because it was the right thing to do the young lady was a student within the district but not from Sitting Bull Academy Amber on behalf of the aosd Board of Trustees I am proud to present you with this certificate of recognition for living our values of dignity Community authenticity and service [Applause] to [Applause] ahe R for sure okay discussion information receive Apple Valley UniFi Teachers Association Sunshine proposal for successor agreement with Apple Valley UniFi School District Jeremiah Harrison Director of Human Resources no it's good all right just like that all right good evening everyone the successor agreement with avuta is open for negotiations at this point and it's our desire to begin negotiations tomorrow you've received avusd sunshine to avuta dated November 7th 2024 it's our intent to open seven articles for negotiations this year you can see those in front of you that's article one 3 13 15 17 19 and 20 are there any question questions that I could answer I I don't have any question okay thank you thank you receive Apple valy Unified District School District's Sunshine proposal for successor agreement with apple valy unified Teachers Association Jeremiah Harrison again I'm just going to ignore you got too far away you also see avuta Sunshine agreement in front of you or Sunshine proposals in front of you yes can I answer any questions about those no thank we have to do it the right way okay receive California school employers Association chapter 828 CSA reopener articles on negotiations with Apple Valley UniFi School District Christine Dupri all right in the agenda you also have a copy of California School Employees Association um reopener for this year it is a reopener for us this year so um total compensation is open as well as the opportunity to open two articles any questions any questions thank you so much okay Kylie do we have any public comments as provided on our public comments card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes item I see the public comments card and I'm not sure I can hold this gentleman uh to the three minutes Mark but I'm goingon to give it a shot Brian Holman first place for oh I'm I didn't notice that again I'm sorry gosh I this isn't this isn't part of my time is it let me take that off I apologize I didn't see that rub it in rub it in yeah good evening my name is not Ryan Reynold it's Ryan man uh you know I'm the snow L Unified School District superintendent first of all I just have to say to uh president okara as well as members RC and and Buchanan and all the administrative staff what a wonderful truly wonderful start to the evening uh you students uh are are honestly why we do the work that we do but incredibly impressive and Zoe please vouch for me in that you know you were my shoulder partner uh do you recall what I said that I most appreciated yeah yeah it really was it was avusd it was AV USD and that's really why I'm here this evening uh again snow L Joint Unified School District we are up here in the high desert if you don't know we're 220 square miles much like yourselves out here uh but I'll tell you we are very grateful for all of you and I'll say a fateful day on September 10th was the bridge fire the bridge fire was uh kind of making its way up from Glendora but it exploded on that evening and we were happened to be in a board meeting got a telephone call and boy um we had to get going right away Franklin Delo Roosevelt talks about you know in the midst of Crisis we really see character and I'm here to say Apple Valley Unified School District has outstanding character um it was it was a tough time eight eight homes were lost as well as eight out buildings uh in the rightwood and pinion Hills uh area but um that evening the the fire was really ripping across uh rightwood uh we were saved I think by God's hand there it did not wipe out the town but we had the chance of losing some some assets and so we needed to move our buses and all I needed to do was make a call to tr Nelson and and and it was a call late in the evening because we had to shut down our volleyball match we were playing Apple Valley Unified High School District unified uh excuse me Apple Valley high school and um Alex pan you know I I know Alex she's your coach did a great job she said let's get going we've got to cut this down we've got to we got to make sure that that sorto high school and all of Snow Line are safe but my call back to tr Nelson thank you TR here it is late in the evening she said you know what Ryan you can move your buses out to our yard Doug Smith your director said no problem right and um and but we decided to not move them there we decided to move them to to Brian over there Brian your place Apple Valley high school and you know what was happening home homecoming homecoming was coming up but I'll tell you you said it's not a problem and so with help from Pat you know always Dustin Matt you just got the best team there I'll tell you um you met them out there TR I think Pat you're out there as well and and Dustin was as well and Matt and your husband too right was out there it's a date night it's a date night I know I'm running out of time but I'll just say this real quickly I had to you know I had to stay behind but TR you and your team were outstanding you g you you greeted all of our drivers there we got all of our buses over there Brian thank you because there was no there was no timeline on that and you had Homecoming coming up too but you graci graciously gave us your facility and so uh as the days passed we were able to get our assets back meaning the buses more importantly the assets of the people and so um I hope you board members know how much we appreciate first of all you what we saw here this evening is really indicative of your character uh to you know to Dustin Pat and Matt they don't get better you don't get better better um assistant superintendent than them is my belief I've been nine years as a superintendent so I think I have some experience in that regard but um TR we go way way way back she's still very young by the way I want you to know but we go way back and uh I don't think there are any better superintendent than TR TR you've done that for me and Us in multiple ways multiple times your your Sidekick there Kylie has been outstanding in terms of supporting APPA Valle in the entire high desert in multiple ways right and it's clear tonight as we heard from these students here how many great outcomes you have occurring here it's incredibly impressive we were together last night at the Seal of bi literacy seeing the scores and scores of Apple Valley Unified High School District students getting those Awards but the TR again to you and your administrative team Kylie Brian Doug Smith who might not be here tonight but we know Doug pretty well right used to be in our district um I would just want to say a heartfelt heartfelt heartfelt thanks because we go back to that quote from Frank Melo Roosevelt right through crisis we really see someone's character the character of Apple Valley Unified um U Unified School District we saw it here today you were you are valuing your values and I just have to say to the administrative team especially you TR it's the best of humanity coming from you thank you from the bottom of my heart I am greatly appreciative snow line is greatly appreciative and uh we just can't thank you enough because really at that moment in time and deep into the night those are scary times and you stepped up like you always do and I'm incredibly grateful uh thank you so so very much and so with that I'll get off the microphone I've been way too long I'll make sure I pick up my my my ribbon here by the way uh if you're wondering I just have to say somehow some way snowline won the animal showing contest last year I I don't know how that happened I don't know I think maybe I was the one who won I don't know for sure after defeating patch fler who's won the last two years prior to that but we've got it right now but all that is to say honesty H kiding aside uh this is a wonderful school district and I saw it here tonight again and I've known it forever TR thanks for your great support greatly appreciate it thanks Ryan and we will be sporting there's a rule that whoever takes the blue the other district has to wear their school yeah but we will be wearing them to a board meeting as the snow line team had to do a few times um and we will be coming back together May 30th to um compete again and get that blue ribbon back thanks Ryan thank you so much thank you it's always a pleasure um to hear that thank you after the fact um because we are quick to beg and slow to than think so I am I'm so grateful that you took your time with managing a whole district and coming here to spend the evening uh and to show gratitude um even though we when it was done it wasn't so that we can get gratitude we did it because you were our neighbor um but the most important thing that I have to say is um I can't wait for me because because we're coming back and we're wrestling that pig and we're getting it thank you again we hope it's a pig it's been a sheep and a cow and to start working out you guys C thank you so much at this time I'm going to release the kids because I know you have homework and dinner and all of that thank you so much for coming and oh don't forget the candy thank you oh that is so good [Music] thank you're welcome Miss Miss honestly so appreciate you soate I I so much so much did you finish they didn't finish it who is there is that good did you speak to can you send Chief to go check yeah go ahead should I continue if we could pause and maybe take a like a five minute break um for a quick recess if that's okay with the board thank you e e e okay we're back in session um board comments Amanda Buchanan no comment Gary Ry no comment mariaa no comments TR Nelson uh public hearing conduct a public hearing on Appo valy UniFi Teachers Association initial bargaining proposal to Appo Valley UniFi School District are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the Apple Valley Unified teachers Association initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley Unified School District and now I now open the public hearing regarding the Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley UniFi School District the time opened is 8:26 it's now 8:27 board president hearing no further public comment I now close the public hearing for the Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association initial bargaining proposal to Appo valy UniFi School District the time closes 8:27 PM number two conduct a public hearing on Apple Valley Unified School District's initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the Apple Valley Unified District's initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association is 8:27 I now opened a public hearing regarding the Apple Valley UniFi teachers School District's initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association hearing no further comment I now close the public hearing for the Apple Valley Unified School District's initial bargaining proposal to Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association time close is 828 number three conduct a public hearing on California School Employees Association chapter 828 reopener articles for negotiations with Apple Valley Unified School District are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the California School Employees Association chapter 828 reopener articles on negotiations with apple valy UniFi School District I like that we're opening it at 8:28 no I'm opening it at 8:29 is it is is 8:29 by my clock I now open the so do you have any comment any questions you just had to mess with me okay I can do it Bender time can give you Bender time or my time so we we'll wait okay hearing no further public comment I now close the public hearing for the California School Employees Association chapter 828 reopener articles for negotiations with Appo Val UniFi School District the time is 8:30 okay it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the initial Sunshine proposal for the district on contract reopener for a successor agreement between the Apple Valley UniFi school district and the Apple Valley UniFi Teachers Association avut I need a motion so moved any discussion all in favor I I any oppose approve the certificated and classified Personnel actions as listed so moved second any discussion all in favor I approve the recommendation for requested leaves as noted so Mo I'll second any discussion all in favor I approve the course of study adoptions for Middle School World languages French 1 a French 1B Spanish 1 a and Spanish 1B I need a motion move a second any discussion mrar would you like Mr um Scher to explain why we are adding this to the middle school they should have added in elementary school if you ask me but yeah please can you explain yes thank you I'll I'm gonna keep from touching this mic because it sounds like it's making some noise so yeah this is um to just sort of memorialize the idea that students who do um take the sequence of courses 1 a in seventh grade 1 B eighth grade of either French or Spanish as it's offered currently would then go straight to the second year in high school not having to repeat any of that content and just kind of makes that pathway more clear it's going really well uh we' like to see this expand and and uh philosophically don't disagree with your thought that um kind of in the vein of the talk of CA by literacy right that um increasing the language skill in students is a is a good effort and it's going well and so this just allows us to make sure that these courses and this quences memorialized properly we already voted on it right approve entering into I believe we just need the vote we have a motion in a second we just didn't take the vote yet okay I need a moot um all in favor I any opposed okay number five I approve entering into an agreement with public agency Retirement services to design an an administer a supplementary early retirement program for eligible District employees provided there is sufficient employee participation and demonstrated fiscal savings to the district I need a motion I move second any discussion all in favor I any opposed approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately expulsion case number 2 2024 20 2025 I need a motion so moved second all all in favor any discussion all in favor I exposion case number three 2024 2025 I need a motion so move second any discussion all in favor I any opposed expulsion case number 4 2024 2025 and a motion so moved all second any discussion all in favor I I exposion case number five 2024 2025 I need a motion so move a second any discussion all in favor I I expulsion case stipulation number 2 20242 I need a motion so moved second all in favor I I exposion case um number three step number three 20242 I need a motion so good I second any discussion all in favor I expulsion case 22 23 2024 that's the one we are pulling back right uh I need a motion so move no second any discussion all in favor I I annual review AR3 2024 2025 I need a motion so move I'll second any discussion all in favor I item uh consent item J it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and item number one through 45 I need a motion so move second all in favor I future items does any member of the board have any future items they would like to see I know we've had discussion about Community Schools and we've had it mentioned a couple times um but it hasn't ever really been presented to us exactly what it's going to look like could we maybe get an informational uh presentation I see why not we need to know before we okay Community School the next board meeting any other thing you need to bring forward before I go forward uh the next board meeting Thursday December 12th at um 5:00 p.m at um this building this room actually we're probably going to be in the multi-purpose room will'll be recognizing um Mr bender and um Mr RC at that Bo meeting so is a multi-purpose room yeah okay there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned I need a motion so moved second all in favor I meeting is over can I get the paper to sign

and 7 p.m. on Saturdays last month theater also competed in their first detas comp of the year out of 55 Schools Granite placed fourth and all of the competitors made it to semi-finals with three of those groups making it to finals with honorable mentions our mock trial team had their first competition last night against Victor Valley high school and we are very happy to announce that we brought home our first one of the Season as one of the team captains I'm extremely proud of this team we have grown so much in the last three years this year the team has a new coach and 18 members for the first time in almost eight years we are extremely thankful to Senor Espin for coaching this year because without him we couldn't do it our next competition will be on November 13th at 5: pm.

as well okay with that meeting is adjourned

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with what he's been given does not look like he can that is Hunter going up 20 now if all right excuse me let's see what they can do round three match point for Hunter if H if Hunter ends up somehow losing this he will actually go down from from third place probably yeah the the landscape right now is there's a you know at the top there's uh Hunter Opie or opai however you pronounce it and stalo oh but of course why is why would he not be up there yes for real up there last what Jonas brother why would he not be up there brother the first time I saw him I immediately my immediate thought was that he looked like was in a boy band yeah stalo specifically his hair like blond and over to the side tall you know looks like Hunter will be winning this and then we go to Owen facing oh someone you can barely make out the name I I can barely make out the name but whatever it's the op that's all that matters yeah as the kids say the yeah the op yeah I can tell you're disappointed in me are really am yes oh that's his name ostriches ostriches yeah yeah ostriches yes as a fellow bird I approve of that oh my no please stop my gamertags blue J it's a bird yeah I can look at up right now blue jay's a bird no oh y I'll reveal your secret right now on live if you test me what this guy eats pizza and you eat the crust only yeah so what what's what's your point I like the bread I don't really like cheese I mean you cut that you cut that off I'll take the pizza I'm fine with that okay all right yeah okay a deal has been made live live on stream yes yes yes yeah uh meanwhile we got some other results coming in we got uh Baro getting the victory as well as Jordan so bolo and Jordan both of the Cyber Tigers both getting victories good for them big wins for the Cyber Tigers today we've been seeing a lot of that very what you like to see yes exactly it's what they came to see like we're going to Clay now facing oh facing a different Jaden this is not me are you sure yes I am sure we just for real that's what I'm that's exactly what it sounds like too yes you barely heard it but anyway that is going to be clay with a victory very very nice as that is that round two that went by fast yeah that was round two H crazy so how's your day going uh it's going good good as his ostriches because he is going to unfortunately get a victory over our Owen how sad how sad but yeah this is looking like a very good uh day for the Cyber Tigers lots of the first loss for today yeah very against uh whoever Hunter could think oh yeah yeah Hunter yeah the the Cyber tiger matchups and then that one exception you know it's been count the Cyber tiger against cyber tiger as a loss yeah for real we don't yeah it's been it's been uh very nice I believe we do still have one more uh round two matchup it is Alex but I'm not sure if we can show that on stream I believe there's some te technical difficulties unfortunately can't pull it up yes you know technology always not working it's very cool it's very cool yes yes whale whale whale technology not working [Music] how she say we're in a can't come up with the word I don't know I couldn't think of anything either yeah well I guess since we can't show you the match up we'll just give an update on it he is currently uh that match is currently two to two it's going to a it's going to a game five and we can't see it over time great yes yes ah see yeah we got to think of something to talk about while uh so who are you going to be playing in OverWatch tomorrow uh tomorrow I'll most likely be playing Juno unless the comp uh specifically wants someone else like KIRO maybe a Baptist but yeah my man is usually Juno arari allari no yes allari is like one of the most irrelevant characters in the entire game she has the best healing output no she doesn't oh you know what I'll show you later okay I'll show you later all right but yeah tuned in uh tomorrow to see uh the blon Cyber Tigers OverWatch Squad Take on Scottsburg and tune in the tomorrow of tomorrow to see the bluff and cyber tiger smash Squad led by me the coolest person in this entire School fact check me I am correct factually in every way possible stop that I saw that yeah we'll be taking on Hobart it's going to be a great match where the two undefeated teams in the league clashing conveniently at the week six Mark how crazy is that scripted for real you guys also face had the week six last last season too us and Hobart yeah no it was us and Oregon Davis last yearart wasn't even on our division last year they weren't I thought they were yeah we're we're double A this year yeah never mind that's right yeah we crossed the threshold by seven students or so mhm it's very cool yes yes yes yes yes very mm yes mhm yeah we're going to see if we can become the Undisputed best team in the league at the moment on Wednesday tune in to see that you'll get to see me and I know you want to see more of me for real stop that refrain whatever what other other synonyms there are for English stop yeah English don't talk to me about English Mr welcome to week listen five I haven't done this in a while cut me some slack I I'm not going to cut you any slack no slack will be cut no slack is cut here at the Cyber Tigers unless you're like on a JV team or something I don't know listen being the oldest member of this team I should yeah I am I did rocket League when it first came out oh good job which I believe that was the first believe that was the longest they started rocket league first I do believe yeah they were in their first year but let's stop talking about rocket League League because we got some updates Baro unfortunately is going to is that right Baro lost yes B Baro unfortunately going to take a loss um we don't know about that uh about the G Lewis match up but whatever anyway let's go to our sponsors you know what's cooler than losing sponsorships one of which Adams Wells huge shout out to our local internet provider Adams Wells internet Telecom and TV they are directly responsible for our Esports players being able to compete because of their incredibly fast and reliable fiber internet service never mind guest bolo did actually win his we had a typo it's okay oopsy Doodles you know what's not an oopsy doodle Adams Wells whatever that means yeah if you're in the market for Internet TV or phone service check out adamswells.com that's adamswells.com and then we got moose the Moose garage special thanks to the Moose garage for sponsoring our event as well check out the garage here on here in town on Main Street it's a cafe game room and music venue for the Youth of bluon to hang out once again moose garage located on Main Street yes they're very cool I've never been there but they are very cool yes seriously you've never been there yeah I never been there what I was I was just like oh no I'm a gamer and that's a place where people hang out I should stay away from that I should just stay in my car driving Dairy Queen every other day yeah for 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that would be a real shame yeah oh no yeah Hunter takes second place in the league that is huge right on week six especially for him yes and for everyone yeah in the Cyber in the entire School ah very good anyway I should come Cal down I have a difficult time calming down when I've already not been calm down do you need do you need a hug no I do not I need to find a way out of this Dimension we need to bring it up again that we're in the vapor wave Dimension right now I don't want to be well unfortunately you are and I've been forced to commentate Tetris matches for my entire life uh-uh yes this is not this is not a consensual choice to be commentating I being forced against my will by the Cyber Tigers to to commentate please help me help me complaints but okay whatever sure anyway we have Clay on the left side of your screen taking on Yeet stroke who's been facing a lot of cyber Tigers tonight yeah he is on the right side of the screen root for the guy on the left he's a cyber tiger he's clay yeah yay yeah ye stroke is just going through the Cyber tiger Gauntlet right now meanwhile a rough position for clay that is unfortunate that is ye stroke taking the round one Victory I feel like he is just wanning the smoke against the Cyber Tigers yes I feel like this was a person this was a personal attack truly a personal attack this is this is our enemy this is our rival for real yeah I know sto is yeah but like this this one this one is also you know how like Sonic doesn't just have to fight Eggman he also has to Fight Shadow it's like that sort of thing this a sub other villain is silver a bad guy I don't know I don't I don't pay attention to Sonic I played the I play the Olympic Games spin-off shout out London 2012 Olympic Games that was awesome all about that yeah thanks London for hosting the 2012 Olympic Games so Sonic and Mario at the London 2012 Olympic Games could become a game thank you for that first good thing London has ever done anyway let me stop throwing shade at an entire land mass and let's go back to Tetris like is stroke he's got some holes in his board let's see if clay can get the finishing touches here's a quad coming through and a single and a double nice that's going to be enough even up evened up meanwhile that is going to be uh off screen Hunter has taken a round three Victory very nice for him he's going to be retaining his spot most likely very good very good meanwhile clay oh clay going off of the screen as we go to EMT who's currently down 02 against it's Pauls uh we got EMT on the left side of your screen route for the guy on the left remember that when you're watching Tetris yes yes what is that you can't see it but he did he did something I don't know got the left in the room I guess oh yeah you were like you were making I'm stupid and I don't know how to tell my directions joke ah yes yes yes very funny yes yes surprised it took you that long to catch on to it meanwhile another uh offscreen development Alex has unfortunately lost his matchup to ostrich that's another person who's been playing a lot of cyber Tigers let's see oh unfortunate placement of that O block for T block EMT no no it's the o t Block it's the what do you mean t block T block what do you mean t block line piece line pie yeah he didn't place a line piece line piece okay line piece ladies and gentlemen yeah we line pieces meanwhile uh seems that clay and E stroke are still in the middle of their uh round three to see who gets Match Point here this is the battle for match point this is not match point this is the battle to see who gets match point if you're ever confused about the score just look up to the top of your screen uh Clay is the one highlighted in blue meanwhile ye stroke at a high point in his board looking rough for him Clay's got to find some sort of finishing move the triple could that be enough Paul is almost digging his way out not Paul yeets is almost digging his way out yeah ye stroke digs himself out of that hole like he he's putting the offense on it's like n Hawk does nice recovery from ye stroke that is going to bring this to match point let's see if clay can make this recovery meanwhile another offscreen development Jordan has won his round three matchup very nice good for him yeah you've just been focusing on like the couple yeah you know have been happening made a lot of offscreen developments yes yes yes yes very good very good yes yes let's see what these two can do here clay has got to win the next two rounds ye stroke only has to win one following round Owen's still in his match mad comes through from clay let's see what else he can do a good singles combo what the the friend request okay let's see he's got a soless taking they're getting roughly to the same position on the board clay has done a good job fighting himself out of the high board position yeah that's a potential t- spin yeah it's looking like he's going to set up for it he's just got to wait for the T Block it's coming up there it is there's a t- spin very nice good combo there I don't have the brain cells to do it te- spin looks like he will be winning round four there yeah there we go very nice combo from clay to take him round four we are going to a round five here overtime y baby yeah baby let's go here he goes he's setting up the te- spin double potentially another one yet set up oh he really does oh my goodness oh and he he messed up the all clear but that's okay he still got e stroke on the ropes let's see what he can do here what are you doing you're doing the lethal company dance okay I love how you do that yes s and CH was didn't know what I was doing oh they didn't know wow they didn't know what it was wow you I love how you do that right away do you love about me Po what let's not do that on stream let's not let's not make those jokes he got to keep it family friendly yeah yeah yeah oh meanwhile e stroke in a difficult position he's going to get some good combos coming through though clay looking to counter this is a very close match see if he sets up for another te- spin let's see here I think he's setting up for a I think he wants a quad but he's not not finding a good he can't find the position for he's not finding the hole there he found the hole and look oh that's a difficult spot see he cannot he's going to miss the he's going to miss the hole and that's unfortunate that's going to be looks like we're going to oh just barely alone yeah we got we got Owen here on the middle of your screen let's recover from that Typical Gamer I had to he's doing well he's two and0 right now yeah currently match point for Owen if he can win this round you know what that Target is uh the target oh yeah that little uh Crosshair yeah you know what that's for yeah that's for targeting which opponent you want to use it's mostly for uh you know multi-person matchups but it just automatically targets the last person standing if it's a okay so okay yeah that's that's more intended for multi-person like party matchups but I guess it's being used in this case for some reason okay I to say because I saw it last time I wasn't sure what it was yeah Owen pretty high up on the board right now he can can still afford to lose this round if he does yep he's going to I needed to clear that was the only way to clear yes but yeah um he either Owen either needs to win this round or if he loses this round he needs to win the next round in order to gain either way he needs to win around to gain the points yeah he just needs to win around to to win the matchup and then I believe we go into game not game bracket what four um I believe three or four yeah I think we'll take a look at the bracket after this matchup yeah let's see I believe he's setting up for a Oh I thought he was going to be setting up for a quad but no he's going to get a quick combo in there throwing some small garbage at his opponent there's a triple howy you can you can never overshoot it mhm let see what he's setting up for a single single combo going to misplace that one oh he gets uh he could have put he could have moved the um l l block over a little bit and plug up that Gap but I guess he doesn't true he's going to get a nice combo does clear it though yep ow seems to be very uh like small combo based game playay he be locked yes he be locked for real on J on we're we're so young and hip yes you are yes I am yes young people love me that's weird I was doing this again doing oh you doing that thing he's telling me no again you don't know that young people love me I'm so cool you know what else is cool round fours fours yeah multiple ones since it's going to be multiple cyber playing round four round four yeah I believe there's a round four today I believe we're being informed in four four get it because like four stop yelling at me it's funny laugh now do it ha haa H good job impressive work you know who else just put in that impressive work Owen he is going to get that Victory oh sheets going to take a round three Victory very nice you want to do sponsors again before we go I'm not uh are we going H I don't know if we do sponsors again we could whatever but yeah hurt if we're doing sponsors again huge shout out to our local internet provider Adam Wells internet Telecom and TV they're directly responsible for our Esports players to be able to compete because of their incredibly fast and reliable fiber internet service I use it while playing Smash Bros here it's a very nice very good internet if you are in the market for Internet TV or phone service silky smooth check out adamswells.com that's adamswells.com and then sponsor to thanks to the Moose The Moose for sponsoring our event as well check out the the garage here in town on Main Street it's a cafe Game Room music venue for the Youth of bluon to hang out go check them out they're on Main Street they're very cool surely yes yes and a longtime sponsor of this program do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea auction it is an online and in-person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more at auction.io that's auction.io and we will be right back not not really if we're leaving I don't know maybe are we leaving I'm not sure who knows I mean that was round three but there's potential talk of a round four yeah so who could know who knows I don't [Music] yes stupid oh my goodness we're back I believe so fancy Contraption made for aliens all right we're good so you figured out so you're an alien yes me alien couldn't you just tell by looking at me anyway you know who else are aliens these guys they must be because of how talented they are at Tetris we currently have emit the Lego Master on the left side of your screen taking on stubby panda on the right root for the guy on the left because that's our cyber tiger oh my goodness what are you doing here have you come to join us you brought me more food this is mine we might have a special guest come on say hello with one of our mics seriously they're going to think it was me who it you'll be fine I'm not going to know that's your switch I mean they are now because I just said it out loud but like it's not in frame yeah just you can sit it right there and it's not in frame you know get over get over here what do you have to say to the world what do you have to I'm scared that's what you have to say that's what you have to say they're very pushy but High World okay there there you go she did it she did the how dare you he pushed my chair away what a meanie is that normal for him though I mean yeah kind of it's the first time he's done it today oh my bad my shoes untied man ty shoes is for wussies for real it is for wussies that's why I tie itens then put it right here all right while we were having uh silly fun times here in the streaming room uh we do have EMT going up 20 against stubby Panda very nice y very nice very nice yes yes that yes that was very funny according to you yes H let's see let's see if emit can we're not going to see we're not going to see all right that that's fine we have Baro on the left side of your screen going up against the opponent anano on the right route for the on the left cuz that is your cyber tiger Baro X dark ninja what are those numbers popping up on the board for those numbers popping up on the board like the five six I believe those are squares yeah I believe those are like that's might be the combo that he's achieving okay yeah I I've never seen that that's why I was just asking yeah it's weird it's trippy it's like EMT wins his yes and very good for him yes yes round four victory the truly truly overtime round this is not normal for our league round four I guess it's a special treat for yeah yeah for real yeah let's see here let's see what Baro can do up against anano Baro currently up a one round to none against anano he's in kind of a seemingly difficult position that's going to be a Mis drop looks like Jordan wins his match very nice for him we got fast to slow matches going on right now yeah Baro with a quad into a t-pin double that's going to be massive damage coming through that's going to be a round one off of that combo very nice impressive performance that is why he is fourth overall in the entire league yeah and that's why we're switching off anyway we have Hunter on the left side of your screen getting a te- spin oh it's like he wins round two of his match very impressive incredible combo I could barely even tell what was going on that's how good he is at placing blocks down fast yes yes yes yes very good very good immediate T spin double and now he's just standing there menacingly like the guy from SpongeBob he just standed there menacingly yeah comedy yeah yeah I sh almost chokes our food yes we have tell me I'm wrong yes we have the current number two in the league right now going to work on the left side of your screen you are watching this live you are watching a master at work look at the quad double oh my goodness the Dorito Logo Pop Up and crosshairs yes exactly we need that we need that that would be hilarious anyway we're back to that uh we're back to that Bara matchup he's currently up two rounds To None looking for a finish here on anio let's see a double is that going to be enough no I don't think so probably not setting up for a t- spin double like he had a quad in the bag right there but he didn't he didn't even get to use it yeah that's how cool he is yes yes he doesn't even need the full power yes yes meanwhile tough spot here for Clay on the left side of your screen is he going to fight out of this oh okay he's not going to very close to it though oh all he has oh we have another round five situation here for time ah let's see if clay can pull it off here moving a lot faster than rock and roll M trying to spin that in place he's going to do it we're being very silent this is a very intense game play Oh My Gosh the line L the line piece let's go Tigers this yeah for real say that mic say to the m say that to the mic let's go Tigers you got this yeah Tigers cyber Tigers let's go come on loud excitement incoherent screaming the dble coming through yay from clay yay he's high on the board but he is not out yet very nice L spin to fill in a gap no no he had Rock had a little hole that the line block slipped into and he couldn't move it very sad very unfortunate but yeah we do have a uh Alex on the left side of your screen stop laughing he's going to be very mad at me isn't he but like to be fair it's a part of the Bas the terminology nuh yeah nuh you got to stop like toddlers I have no clue what she talking about hey you want to say that in the M they act like toddlers I hope you'll know this what come for seen a toddler they act way worse than us they're horrible on the weekends I live with like a seven-year-old he's awful and like that that you're talking lower level Lewis will be looks like we have another overtime match oh my goodness another game five how could this be because because oh yes yes yes I did not take that into account because yeah let's see it's going to be Alex Gale Le saving up for a quad into a double on let's see here stacking up looking to get something going here thinking about dropping the quad into the hole he's not going to oh there's a little uh wave off screen triple coming through because the messiness on the bottom of the board that's not going to be a quad oh very very nice that's going to be a game five situation that we take home that is going to be Alex Gail Lewis taking home the victory very good and I believe round four was going to be our last round of the night do believe it yes we have finished we have done it now I can keep looking out for a exit to the vapor wave Dimension I would love oh my goodness that's with us off screen throw your shirt no okay okay how unfortunate I'll just sit antisocial much well I mean cyber tiger moment yes yes yes but yeah disappear from this thank you for joining us this evening we will be back tomorrow at at 500 p.m thankss at 5:00 p.m.

okay so 7:20 okay all right we good Mr Williams and Mr Burton okay all right it is 6:30 we are going to go ahead and start our Schoolboard meeting tonight on November 11th we normally start with the Pledge of Allegiance but given um what today is Veterans Day I would ask that all veterans please stand in the room to be recognized I'm sitting next to one there you go okay Mr Glick as well all right thank you all very much for your okay um if we could all now rise and for the Pledge of Allegiance the United States St of America and to the rep for it stands Nation indivisible Justice for okay we do have a full board here tonight so I'll call this meeting to order Dr Phillips thank you Mrs wion we'd like to start each meeting by uh reciting our mission vision and core beliefs uh to remind us of the reason that we're here this evening bcsc's vision is Cho and relevant phys and social and psychological needs are met that our community and School District district are stronger when we partner with one another democracy are by Civic thank you okay so we will start with a public hearing on Ed Flex waver M so um I think there was some explanation and what came out to to you all ahead of time we've posted a public notice um as required for this Ed Flex waver it's a new um public procedural thing in terms of offering an opportunity for com comment on um or public comment on our application for this waiver that is around the qualifications and um getting highly qualified teaching assistance in our classrooms that are federally funded so at our title schools it allows us some flexibility in being able to do that um not only by their schooling and and that sort of thing but also by ways that we can train them to be highly qualified in the classroom and give us that flexibility so and so in the past back when I used to be in the same role that Mrs scha is any that was paid with title funds with federal dollars had to either have a bachelor's degree or had to to pass a a it's called the parpro test um cost them a pretty significant amount of money to take that test created a barrier for us to be able to hire people for those positions the federal government now says you can wave that requirement for these teaching assistance classified staff position but you have to go through this process of advertising that you're waving the requirement and then also conduct a public hearing and we and we've been sorry to interrupt we've been waving that requirement for a number of years they've just changed the procedural process of allowing for public comment so we've been training through some some bcsc modules and training processes through our own PD to help those folks be highly qualified before they're in the classrooms just with more flexibility so that we can do that with the right kind of individuals working with our kids and so it's not this does not lower the standard for um our staff compared to what it was last year but at this time uh if any member of the public uh wishes to comment on this this waiver this is the appropriate time to do so I think that was appropriate wait time yep it was okay thank you thank you Mr Chef now we get some recognition fantastic that's right Columbus North High School Mr Clark or Mr Lewis and our um our first ever boys individual tennis state champion from Columbus hello uh good evening everybody uh my name is Brian Lewis I am the athletic director at Columbus North High School and just want to say thank you guys for acknowledging for his um success that he's had um this season um in the fall so a couple of items I want to read out to you guys just to let you know the success he's had over the last four years um Hank is a brother of of three who all play Varley tennis at at um Columbus North High School earned a VAR letter all four years he played number two singles his first two years of high school played number one singles last two years of his high school career record of 20242 7 and0 High School career 97 and3 his three losses came in state so which is a fantastic thing which doesn't happen very often um all four years he was all conference Champs also All State all four years when he was a varsity player All State single first team 2024 All State academic team led Columbus North team to the uh state finals all four years in 2023 Indiana State individual single runner up 2024 state champion Hank also has a 4.22 GPA and next year he's looking forward to going to Purdue to study fortical science and also playing college um tennis your 2024 tennis champion Hank Lynn congratulations hold on congratulations the only thing I would add to that as a principal Hank's a great an excellent young man as well I want you all to know that I've challenged him multiple times to play tennis to play against me in tennis multiple times but one of these times I'm going to say it out loud [Laughter] oh that's right we haven't done one of these for a long time this is we shoulder to the wall right nice job we have a some amazing young men and women live in this community thank you Mrs W then next we have um Mr Williams and the technology department has a have a special recognition for us about another one of our staff members hello I'm honored to be here my name is Adela dicki I'm the was the chief technology officer for Northwest Allen County Schools up in Fort Wayne for a number of years uh before retiring but I continue to work with the Indiana CTO Council and a program that we call the CTO to be program which is intended to help find future education technology leaders to take over CTO roles so that some of us can retire so as part of that program we um we bring together the CTO to bees and mentors and pair them up so that they can work together for the year um and hopefully then at the end of two years they can also sit for the exam that Cen has arranged the certified education technology leader exam which is why I'm here tonight for Anastasia um Anastasia went through our program I believe last year and uh I spoke with her Mentor today and she the mentor said that um she had a wonderful year working with Anastasia and actually took ideas that that she was given back to her own District too so it was a great partnership for the two of them to both learn from each other and and benefit their schools so I want to congratulate Anastasia but also let Mr Williams thank you um Anastasia joins just a handful of Technology leaders in education with the cetl uh certification now there's a lot of backgrounds in the technology leaders of Education districts from education to uh the private sector to even some just lawyers or business people so uh it's it's a difficult or at least a different environment that takes some dedication to learn and Anastasia like we talked about in our mission not too many slides ago uh are dedicated to expert Learners and investing in people Anastasia started as a TA at Central moved into a teaching position and is now one of our District's uh best technology leaders as an educator so she really exemplifies what I think this District wants out of our staff um and it's a privilege to be able to honor her here tonight so so thank you for the time congratulations another picture congratulations congatulations one more picture C you're fine he does amazing things with that camera and before Mr Williams moves on to the next item on the agenda which is also led by Mr Williams I want to uh embarrass him by pointing out that none of these recognitions in his Department happen without him pushing great people to do great work um under Nick's leadership we are now the only District in the state with three uh people working in our technology department who have this certification so thank you Mr all right Switching gears here um I want to thank you uh for the time to talk about a program that is extremely important for myself and for a lot of people in this community and that is Friends of mioshi uh we have not been able to give a board presentation for a while uh mainly because this is taking a while to get back up to what it normally was after the pandemic uh but we thought it was a great opportunity to talk to you about again in this wonderful relationship between the city of miosi schools and bcsc this is a 30-year-old program now Janice uh Montgomery was one of the first ambassadors who's here and we have many other friends here that help support this fantastic group um and we're going to talk to you briefly about some of the things that bcsc does the community does to help welcome and really make this relationship what it is today and that is uh every year we have mioshi students come visit us they stay with middle school students um and are here for a week and go to school we also have a group of high school students who are studying Japanese under Mrs baz who's also here um who get to visit mioshi and also have the privilege of being able to stay with students over there um in Japan and mioshi due to their generosity is the best word I can describe it is they send an educator every year over to uh mioshi for a week um and several ambassadors are here as well um that has been able to do that over the years and I'm going to pass it off to Blake who kind of LED this year's visit from Moshi thanks Nick um and I'm Blake Manuel I'm assistant principal at Columbus East High School for team 2025 and I've had the privilege of working with the mioshi partnership um for probably over 10 years now as a teacher at Central Middle School as an assistant principal at Central and now assistant principal at East and um with this visit from Yoshi they come every year usually in the August time right at the start of our school year um and this year they brought 16 students three adults and two adult Leaders with them as part of this visit and and when they come they partner up with middle school students um as host families and the mioshi students stay at the homes of our Columbus students and so this year we did a number of group activities every year we visit City Hall and have time with the mayor we SP time at the Columbus Police Department um they love talking to the police officers and getting to see the police cars and we had the chance to meet officer plank outside this year um where they were able to ask just a ton of different questions um you know how police uh policing compares to the movies and all that stuff and kind of going through those conversations and um one of the other big things of the trip is that we do a a field trip where uh north side and Central students travel with the mioshi students to Columbus Youth Camp and they spend um the day there doing team building different activities and that's at the very beginning of their trip and it's a way to kind of form those bonds right away as they get ready to spend a week uh literally living together and sharing life together um so starting off the week at that Youth Camp was a great time uh every every year as well mioshi pays for an Arigato party and that's their thank you party and that's their way of saying thank you to the Columbus Community for hosting them and for spending that time and um this year arato party was at Northside Middle School um where our students got to participate in in games from that the Moshi students prepared they did songs they did Dances all in the north side um cafeteria area and this again is just a great time for all the families to get to come together and to kind of share in this experience of of Hosting these students from mioshi uh one of the highlights though at the beginning of the trip was our students all of our students traveled to U North High School where they met um Mrs Ba's Japanese class and they spent time there interacting with the students in the Japanese class class um and spending time introducing themelves sharing about um their favorite hobbies and things that they were excited about on their visit and then they were actually able to have a lunch prepared by um the C4 students in the culinary arts program and Chef KY and just continue that conversation over the course of lunch and and sharing that meal and so that was just a really exciting time for uh the Columbus students um who some of them also traveled to mioshi this past summer on a field trip um as well as the Japanese students coming in so um again just with the partnership uh we try to even it out eight students at Northside eight students at Central hosting these mioshi students and spending a week in the classes um having school lunch riding the bus sometimes just really living that life and so right now I'd like to introduce will Andress who's a seventh grader at Northside Middle School who's going to share about his experience hosting a mioshi student hi my name is Will Andress I a seventh grade student in noride middle school and my family got to host a mioshi student named haruma one of the things I learned after hosting was that even though we lived very far from each other we still had very many things in common like playing basketball we had siblings and we had like uh we we had very many games that we like to play um one of my favorite Parts after hosting was that we got to play basketball together uh he taught me how to count to 10 in Japanese and we rode my electric scooter um his favorite part though that he told us was going to Skyline Chile playing basketball but I think his favorite part was probably going to Texas Road House and eating all of the rolls that came to the table I had a very fun uh time hosting and I had I got to learn a lot of Chinese culture and I wish to see him again thanks will um so again that's just a little Glimpse but tons of food lots of different stories of all the different places they go and eat and zahar coast and just I'm living that life uh I think you were given a blog post written by Will's dad um just sharing about their the impact that having a host had on that on their entire family and so that was really exciting and um one of the other things we do during the visit is we take the leaders around to the different schools and so we hit almost every single school we took them to um the new school location we took them to Parkside to see the renovations there and we took them to um many other elementary schools just to see those changes um but one of the biggest events was we went to Southside and spent uh a lot of time there with um some of their students giving a tour and so right now I'd like to introduce Soju AA who's a sixth grader at Southside so he can share a little bit about their experience of having um the guest at Southside hi good evening K my name is soier w and I am a sixth grader at Southside Elementary School I moved to Columbus from Japan with my family when I was in grade I used to live in chiva perfecture which is near Tokyo when I moved to Columbus I could understand a little English but I couldn't say very much over the past 3 years I have studied hard and learned a lot of English I was a little nervous to help the group from mioshi but I was Su successful and felt proud of myself I think that knowing two languages makes me special and I think it will me it will help me in the future I will recommend visiting or living in another country to anyone because I feel that experiencing different cultures give you New Perspectives I hope other American student get the opportunity to visit Japan and vice versa other Japanese student get to visit the United State thank you so the other parts of this beautiful friendship is that again miss baz has the privilege to be able to take students over to Japan and there's a picture of them in Tokyo which is about four hours away from mioshi um but they get to meet students there that are attending their schools and also get to stay with some of their families and Chef KY uh was able to join this summer and it was the first time in a few years that they were able to go so it was nice to continue this part of our relationship and then the last part is that again uh miosi said SS a Goodwill Ambassador from bcse every year um and has for 30 years which is kind of hard to believe Blake went in 2023 I went over fall break uh just last month um and Beth Bowers is going to be our next Goodwill Ambassador in 2025 um and and it is you're a celebrity there it's it's quite amazing but the best parts are that you get to talk to the students you get to go to the schools teach them about America and then just connect with people who have traveled over here for years um it's just a deeply Rich uh type of experience one of the best things I've ever done and to be able to do it with the schools it just makes it that much better so thank you for the time and we'd be happy to answer any questions uh about this wonderful friendship any questions from the team no hey the picture of the food that's a lot of cheese and Fries they're going to have a very bad impression of our diet here in America he was he he told us that he thought American food was kind of like uh a lot worse than Japanese food but he also uh cooked for us one of the days and he made us this like uh lettuce and like bacon meal but the bacon wasn't fully cooked so now I will say I told my girls when I got home that there was no bread or cheese there and they're like nope I'm not going I very much appreciate the students coming to talk tonight really nicely done thank you very much that was very helpful okay I believe we have school Ward member reports um we'll start with Mr Bryant do you have anything tonight no Mr major no only thing I have is uh Redevelopment met last week with a special meeting to talk about buying a new salt Barn when they move Department of Public Works the other side of town other than that nothing from the Health Trust no changes so thank you nothing Mr sh um I don't have a report that County Redevelopment meets on Monday November 18th so next meeting I'll have an update from them just a couple quick things from the school Foundation uh and this is primarily aimed at any teachers out there that might be listening uh the grants process um is still working on uh we're still continuing to work on that process with the goal being that that will be rolled out uh soon after the first of the year to replace what used to be uh donors choose uh yesterday the school Foundation held um a successful event at East yesterday afternoon the Wizards game it was a fun for very fun for everybody who U was in attendance I know I was there with a lot of family members able to see my brother Chris play and uh one of our adorable grandsons Liam was taken to Center Court by lunatic and uh and uh was able to uh make his lay up and then uh steal the ball from King Arthur and remarked afterward that was the best day of his life so yes that's it thank you Mr I don't have any okay Mr Schultz it was actually a very busy week for me uh we had the ccic meeting this week where we went over IAD strategies um we also got some insights onto the cohort's best practices um so thank you Mr Edwards on that and then uh safety is going to be reviewed in the next meeting and then today we also met for the Hall of Fame uh selection has been confirmed but will not be announced from this section and it'll be announced I believe in January with a banquet follow so uh stay tuned um that information will come to the board here in the coming weeks thank you cabinet reports thank you Dr bosan has an update on our official fall count from the beginning of October I do um as is normal protocol this time of year we have our official count from the ADM which is average daily membership which um these are K12 students that I'm not doing anything uh I I'll keep talking here Nick will Nick will fix us um K12 students that um determine our state funding for tuition the um Des reminder there are no prek students on the um on this data at all um can you hear me okay am I am I coming through okay sorry I can't I can't tell very well from where I'm sitting here so um a couple of notes uh for your for your review here um we're actually up uh 20 students from September 24 back to September 23 which we're uh we're pleased we're pleased of that result 11 , 396 officially compared to 11,375 the same time last year uh I note that because um according to our demographic study we have some slides that we'll share here um in just a moment we're actually our ADM um is actually outpacing the um what was projected from the demographic study actually both demographic studies that we've had in 2016 and 2020 um we were actually um expected to uh lose about 53 students between September 23 and uh the current time so being up 20 is uh certainly uh benefit and and we're happy to see that um the anticipated according to the demographer the anticipated enrollment was to be 11,281 this year so um we outpaced that projection last year and this year um I'll mention that the kindergarten numbers are lower as you see on the left-and side uh from what we've seen and heard from others um that's a trend across the state of lower kindergarten numbers um generally speaking and I I'll mention also um I think that part of what contributes to the fact that we are up 20 students is in our high school grades we have um we are down 41 students between grades 10 and 12 uh normally that um over the past eight years that average a loss of 87 students so uh going from an average of losing 87 students in those high school years to just 41 I think is a complement to our high schools and the work they're doing with the cohort models and and and building those relationships with students Dr fil you want go next slide thanks this chart you've seen uh you've seen this last year when Dr Phillips had done this presentation but the line at the top is indicates cumulative growth of enrollment so since the um um since 0304 that's a net gain of 1,339 students and uh roughly a point I'm not sure what to do about that Nick I don't know it's probably sorry um it's about a 610 of a point um increase over over that time a couple of couple items here that I'll note the um the large gain you see in 2015 we did not not gain 594 students that year that is the year that the state counted all kindergarten students as uh uh full tuition students versus half time sorry my prior to 2015 check check getting tested here on my resiliency I think um restate that again the we did not have an increase of 594 students in 2015 that's when the state county kindergarten students as full tuition students prior to that they were counted as half tuition so uh that's the result of that um the the dips and the gains that you see otherwise uh back in 2009 and 10 uh you may recall that's when a local charter school had opened here in Columbus and that school had closed in 1314 you see the um 148 student loss and the 74 student gain and then um ironically the other the other big bump there is 124 students in 2122 which is um students we gained during during covid time the last slide we have up here for you is just a comparison of our um our enrollment comparatively to our demographic studies that we've had so the blue line is our actual ADM that you see there the the orange line um and the green line are the demographic study so the orange line is from the 2016 study and the green line is from the most recent 2021 study and if you look closely you can see that the blue line as I mentioned before is outpacing both of those studies um according to the demographer so um I know Mr Schult you had asked um a couple meetings ago for an update on the on that demographic study um here since where we've been a couple years are moved and where we have that preliminary data we actually think we have a call with Dr breig tomorrow to to review that so we'll have that to you just as soon as it's it's ready to be reviewed so um with that I will uh do my best to answer any questions you may have yeah I I appreciate that and I was just about to bring it up but the one question I also have is just because we're really focused in on increasing the elementary capacity is how does the elementary ATM compare as well right because a lot of it may e and Flow with the private schools and everybody that funnels in at the high school level but the 12th Elementary is essentially to increase our capacity by one 10th probably once you factor in the smaller Elementary School we project that ADM growth to offset some of that capacity needs well we do um and that's that will be a benefit of getting that updated demography study as well so far we've been outpacing as I mentioned the high school um but the fact that we're up um 115 students um since the um we had the study reviewed a couple years ago um would indicate such but that will we'll know more when we get that study returned to us yeah I think the two areas when when you talk with this de demographer is the one two areas that I'm noticing the most of when I'm looking at the taxpayer bills is we've seen like a I believe I was talking with a couple members of the County Council a 4X increase of people that work within the county but they reside outside the county and so a big question mark that I'd like to see if that trend is going up especially as people are looking more with cumin and the practices of RTO some people may be willing to move further if it's only two to three RTO full five day work those are questions like how does that behavior impact I mean because res we're really driven off residency not necessarily employees right yep thank you any question I have couple questions on the first spreadsheet um yeah so the new Tech students um I assume those are not included in the East or North numbers that those are if if they're East North students but going to new tech they're just counted once in new tech is that correct yes the 353 for new tech is not duplicated in the East and North numbers correct and um I think this is maybe a comment or a challenge a challenge for us and we we saw this in the our discussion around the cohort models and how they fit is that we have two high schools that are very different in size and it looks like that's at least from last year to this year that has become more of a challenge um I'm curious how many of those um are transfers in the past it's been fairly even transferring between schools is that still the case or what are those numbers like yeah so I Mr Edwards can speak to that I I I do know and I don't want to speak for him um the uh the High School principles and the leadership there do factor that in as they're making decisions on on accepting of transfers uh but you'll you will notice that that that divide is is in terms of enrollment between the schools is increasing so North High School you can see is has increased from 1932 to 2075 um students that enrolled there and East has declined just just a little bit um um so I don't know Mr Edwards you can you you want to speak to that better than I can on the process I don't have a lot to say about the uh process but I will say that those numbers are fairly flat so when uh you ask the question you know do more students transfer in the North or more students transfer in the East there used to be uh again some discrepancy uh and we would see uh more of the students transferring into East that has not been the case the last ser or three years and so that is fairly flat it is it's fairly even nobody's winning the transfer um nobody we're not nobody's seeing um larger numbers it's it's it's flat so the increase and decrease we're seeing is is from basically the change in The Homeschool population by District that is correct okay particularly in the last two I would say the last two years that's been the case prior to that it was that there was a net gain of students to East from in the transfer and historically until about 2019 is when that started to flatten out the last couple of years that increase at North has just been we're seeing the same thing at Northside and Schmidt um just in that area the number of students that are locating there we're not sure if that's because of um housing turning turnover um where maybe older families are moving out and younger families are moving in but it is it is really concentrating in that that geographic area right there which I will I will say that leads me to um to your question Mr Schultz about the of course the 12th Elementary the Elementary on another Elementary on the west side of town allows us to have additional capacity for future growth um but even if that doesn't happen we have problems that we need to address if there's not a 900 home development on the west side of town we have problems that we need to address for example Schmidt's enrollment being well over 700 and we still can't uh fit prek in that building which is one of our buildings where we believe our students would most benefit from prek in addition um building that Elementary on the west side of town allows us to District Shadow Creek into Southside Elementary right across the street from it so there are other problems that get solved um even if we don't see some dramatic increase in elementary numbers um anyway that's it Mr N I think I interrupted did you have another question also no thank you um I understand why we didn't include prek here but I had a similar line of thinking how many pre students do we have today just 250 right now isn't that right Mrs hack about 250 between 225 and 250 and do do we feel like there's more of a need that we are not able to accommodate today uh definitely depending on the location yes and um certainly for financial assistance um we would see those numbers dramatically increase if uh we provided more scholarship spots yeah thank you and we uh at the ccic meeting this week last week sorry discussed the initial findings from uh the lhp study into our prek that uh told us sneak peek here told us that um there's a dramatic impact on the I 3 learning I read I learn sorry I read three scores um for students who are um elel English language learns um it looked to be um somewhere north of 30 percentage points different if you attended our prek versus not attending our prek uh so dramatic impacts and we'll bring you more information on that probably at the next board meeting thank you question just a a reminder we do adms uh every fall do we also do them now in the spring yes what what month is that February February thank you and the the other thing I'll note on this slide while it's up there I just pulled it up um to remind you another dramatic Trend that continues is just the decline in the number of students who are in the CVP program uh we were 458 at our height in September of 2021 uh and then down to 222 now part of that is also attributed to the the cohort model where the um teams are now taking more control over whether a student transfers to CVP and um are if a student's not successful in CVP they're going and telling meeting with the family and saying that student needs to come back in person where they can be more successful thank you Dr bosan thank you uh so this would be a time in our agenda for public comments um just a reminder that if you would like to speak on any topic um you can come to a school board meeting there's always a blue sheet on the table when you walk in and you can sign up to to talk with us for 3 minutes um on the screen you can see a list of some of the notes for for speakers but we do not have any speakers currently signed up tonight so I will I will pass over this part thank you Mrs to approvals under old business tonight I request approval of the minutes of the regular school board meeting of October 28th I move that we approve the minutes of our regular school board meeting held on October 28th second thank you Mr gron Mr Schultz as Mr Bryant was not able to join us in that meeting I believe he's going to abstain from the vote I'm just goingon ignore you this time just one time Mr Brian okay so we have a motion and a second are there any questions or comments on the minutes from last school board meeting no okay all those in F favor of approving school board meeting notes from October 28th please say I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries 60 thank you and then tonight under new business request approval for supplemental contracts field trips and professional leaves school fundraisers raisers the claims for for November 11th and the pre- runs from October including the one payroll uh also in addition to the one payroll uh from the middle of October and then also items uh e through J the policy reorganization work which just a reminder that was uh 13 policies to replace all or part of 50 current policies that integrated several of the changes that were uh suggested by Mr major and Mr nen also item F permission to bid Phase 2 projects for Johnson Early Education Center to allow us to double the capacity for right Beginnings item G is permission to bid C4 at East item H is permission to bid the Smith renovation and item a is related to the hear I'm sorry item I is related to hearing we held earlier and allows us to uh ask the board for permission to approve that flexibility for the federal programs and then last item J is permission to purchase four portable classrooms uh for use initially at Schmidt during the construction phase of uh Schmidt but also possibly following that as we move prek back there prior to uh likely redistricting in a couple of years so again request approval item number 10A through J I move that we approve line items 10 a through 10j as presented second thank you Mr Schultz and Mr Nan are there any questions or comments from the board members on items 10 I just have one comment Dr Phillips and it was from a constituent that I was talking to last week is that it was very appreciative to be able to see all the contracts and I don't know for anybody listening in you can go on board docs you can look at all these publicly nothing in here is blocked and so like I just want to say thank you from them and also Dr Boseman on the portable classrooms I think it's going to increase our flexibility especially if we try to I know one of the big concerns I got out Parks side was protecting the gym space as much as we can so um that's something that I appreciate okay I was going to mention the gym space was something that was important to people that I'd heard um the other thing on policies I I'm I'm still got some questions on talk through with everybody but on one of them uh actually there's two very similar the 450 and 550 450 is drug prevention and drug testing and 550 is student search and seizure um both of them I left some questions in there that weren't all answered um one of them was about who is going to do searches and so I think the question is uh or drug testing all that um there was nothing noted in there about SRO and I feel like um if if we're looking at drugs or searching a a student's vehicle or Locker I feel like it'd be better to have someone from law enforcement there since they're fully trained in in especially the search and seizure um there were questions that I had about parent notification so do when do we notify do we have that codified in here somewhere that says you know we're going to talk to a parent um before during after and then in the process of doing this uh especially search and seizure um having it be a buddy system so it's not one teacher versus one student and it's US versus them um but having you know at least two people do the search along with possibly even video collection during the search to make sure that you know uh nobody is is concerned that they're getting taken advantage of and we're to file like a fourth amendment complaint against search and seizure so I had those questions and then on employee background checks I know we removed one section but it's still in the contractor side so the the question the the section 4 that you removed is still it's it's still down here in the uh contractor side where it's uh School Corporation contracts for services may not and then it's got your section for so I didn't know so the section we removed from that is the phrase that read um for positions that work direct I'm not going to be able to quote it exactly but for positions that work directly with students that's the fa phrase that we took out which is what I thought that both you and Mr Nan had requested that in fact we will not employ people at all that have that type of offense and that was for um direct employment this one is uh additionally an entity with the school corporation contracts for services may not and so this would be a service provider or a contractor side and it's that that's still in there in that section as well it's it's States tell me if I'm incorrect it states that we will not contract and and no no entity that we contract with could employ someone who works with us who has an offense of the nature defined by that Indiana code right but it still States unless a majority of the board approves the hire contract which is what state code says so that's that's state law and so if if if in fact you wanted to approve the board wanted to approve having us either employ or contract with someone who had an offense defined under that the board would have to vote to do so so it says here that um engaged in a course of conduct involving repeated or continuing contact with a child that is intended to prepare or condition the child for sexual activity as defined by a code uh IC 35424 13 unless a majority of the members of the board approv such higher I don't think the I think the conditions for SE the sexual activity with the child's defined but I think this still comes down to if we know my my concern is this if we know that um we're going to contract with somebody we should be telling them they cannot have someone work on our contracts if they have if they knowingly have an individual that has done something against that law that's exactly what we're we're working on that's what the policy reads and we're working with um actually with Mr mcgyver to U develop standard language that we will send to every contractor anyone that we contract with to make sure that they sign agree but this States right now when we change this it's still going to state that unless a majority of the board members approve are we still going to keep that in there that it's what it's what Indiana code says is that the exactly the words there that unless you all approve that we cannot contract with an entity I I don't believe we should contract with them I agree with you Peri I agree with you and so the board the part we did change was um it said I think this is where in for those offenses it says in an academic environment and and Mr major and I both thought why are we limied that to only if it only occurred in an academic environment so that's the part that is gone now correct so it's in any situation correct and just for purposes of clarity I think to Dr Phillips's point the default terms of any contract that we would want put forward for the school corporation with an entity would say that entity will not hire or contract with an individual who engaged in this conduct that's what the contract would say period sometimes in the course of negotiating a contract an entity may say oh well you know paragraph J can you change that paragraph K can you change that the board would retain the discretion to change that based on what you're saying and what I see the heads nodding I don't think the board would ever change that policy or change that provision in the contract but the default the default terms going out would say that that entity would not hire or contract with someone who had engaged in that conduct good so we're going to leave it like that that's up to the that's up to the board any other comments or questions on that one before cuz I want to go back to the search and seizure one just to make sure um we clarify on that one anything else so on the search and seizure question some of the some of the details um around um parent contacts I think aren't addressed explicitly but it the policy does require us to document anytime that we have a search um I did think that it had that you wouldn't search Alone um that there would be two staff members in there Dr Boseman is nodding his head like he thinks it's in there as well um and so we'll look we'll look for that um on the question of um who conducts the search our practice within the schools for for decades has been that only an administrators um you know Deans principles assistant principles would conduct a search I would not want to um without talking explicitly with um Sergeant Smith I would not want to delegate the search to the police department because then it becomes an actual police search at that point that that legal line between a school search and a police department search has some pretty significant differences when it comes to um the what you can and cannot do with the information that comes from that search um there are uh tremendously higher legal standards for protection from uh individual and Mr mcgyver correct me if I'm pretending like I'm a lawyer um and I'm misspeaking but much higher protections for the student if the police department is conducting the search versus a um versus a school staff so when it comes to school staff for example because um we have handbook um statements that say Hey if you're a student here and you're in um you participate in athletics or Co co-curricular program or drive to school you're basically consenting then to have your car searched you're consenting to a drug test if you so you give up some of your rights if the police are conducting that search those things don't apply so there's a significant difference between if if an SRO is doing it even if they're one of our s because they're still um working for the police department because we contract with the police department for those services and just for my clarity um because I know this has been brought up to multiple courts both in the Indiana court of appeals and I believe the Supreme Court has ruled in this area a couple times I recognize that students aren't afforded you know full protection under the Fourth Amendment right you you have a right within certain parameters but you're not guaranteed that when you enter into a School situation I do feel like we need some kind of a an SLA in here requiring a contact to a parent although I agree documentation is sufficient at the end of the day I mean a reasonable person could conclude in which you were trying to seek that search in which the information would be turned over at what point a minor is a minor and does not have the ability to represent themselves in that situation will draw further ey from the courts and so I mean I I'm sure Mr mcgyver is read over these and agrees with them but that's another level of protection to the school corporation which you know within the that school day the parent is notified which I'm sure is the current practice as of today but without it being backed in policy you're left at the discretion of individual administrators which can create liability so I would just I would just encourage some level of SLA be put into the policy so that you can just so at least everybody knows what they're marching towards there there is a statement here that says the administration will make a reasonable attempt to apprise the parent or guardian of the situation it doesn't say when y so my my my belief is they should do it possibly before during after right they should definitely before they're going to search the a a student's Locker or car or do a drug test they should notify the parent that this is this is this is our concern this is what's happening it could be a reaction to medicine that's causing a kid to act a little loopy it could be that the kid stole some beer or something right I mean there's a lot of things that could happen there but to do these things without parent notification before I think it would be a concern to me and to Logan's Point Now's the Time to put it in in policy if we can so but but I also I also want to clarify I think there's three different elements right who and Mr mcgyver I know you're far more versed on this so I'll lean to you is like searching of a locker or a desk is the lowest level of right that school property there's no afforded protection search of personal belongings such as backpacks Vehicles any non school property item would be the next one ad minister of a test that could eventually have legal implications and turned over to law enforcement for criminal investigation it's kind of that third element right so like I mean my gut here is with you know searching of a locker by all means you're in the real searching a personal property probably within that day needs to get to the parent ASAP which I'm sure again is customary practice I've never been on the side of it thankfully but customary PR prior to administering a drug test I feel is appropriate because at that point that that student if they were to say I accept is essentially forgoing one of their legal rights of possibly saying no and allowing for that to rule through the courts again that's just my Layman's examples of that but that's that's how I see those three and I will um I agree with you and and we agree the um we have found through this policy review uh a number of things that our current policies say that we do that that as far as our current team knows um you know we're finding that in fact that practice has dissolved or or slipped away at some point in the past and um one of those is you know a signature in the handbook from while that happens uh I'll say Almost 100% of the time for students in the lower grades not so much in the upper grades but in the high schools that's where that notification lies in the handbook and that acknowledgement and agreement um is signed by the parent saying yes if my my student in fact does participate in athletics drive a school band those kinds of things then I agree to um for them to be uh included in the pool for the random drug random drug search or drug test and and that's a good point because I made a note for the drug test one it it does state that a parent or Guardian has to sign off it doesn't say when so that's it should State they must sign off prior to the start of that season or activity whatever it is so and then it then it's clear it's very clear the coaches should not I mean that's a check sheet item for a coach did you turn your slip in no you did not you can't participate until then and so that's another way to encourage them to review and sign off as well so thank you these are two of the um you know policies if we were considering these for a revision as we came to the board certainly ones that we would engage in a pretty deep discussion about many of these topics I would request um that we proceed with approving these in their current format for the purposes of working our way through this reorganization and then us adding this to the list of ones that we come when we complete this reorganization process that we immediately come back to to have a public work session and and dig into some of those more detailed changes um again simply for us to continue to work our way through this reorganization process I I would just ask I mean there's going to be a time lapse between here and there right of at least a few months and that's a fair I mean this is a behemoth of policies that we're trying to go through I would just ask that you look at the administrative guidelines and see do we have those checks in place at some because again right is from a legal standpoint we have to have that policy to protect us and the last thing I would want is to put an administrator in situation where they have literally the variation at them and they're not and then all of a sudden we find out well administrator coursed student a into drug tests that then led to criminal liability and now they're claiming they were coed and you get into the whole He Said She Said situation there and so I think that as long as I'm I'm good as long as you're willing to go through the administrative guidelines because those can be CP fixed now absolutely yeah policy and process should not be ambiguous thank you okay yes Mr I don't have a concern but I do have a question on um c150 which is about homeless students talked about a um liaison for homeless children so in our system I assume that falls under somebody's duties but I don't know where uh Jana Norman okay correct our U coordinator of student and staff services I believe is her title and she's our Kenny vento officer and I do believe there was another question I apologize I was in writing that now that you brought up that question um to of that policy the mckin vento ACT requires us to provide transportation for any homeless student back to their home school so if they are temporarily relocated to Columbus but they were going to school in Seymour um then we I'm sorry actually in that case Seymour would provide the transportation for them back to see more same thing here a student um finds themselves homeless doubled up and they are forced to move to Seymour if they wish to the family wishes to have them continue to attend school here then we are required to continue to provide transportation and we do for several students sometimes um partnering districts will meet us at the County Line and we we help one another out in that way but um if that's not possible then we do provide transportation there was a question about that in writing thank you you're welcome okay any other questions or comments only other thing I had real quick um what just curious what's the cost difference to rent those Portables versus purchase yeah thanks for thanks for your question the um I'll provide some clarity we're seeking aiss to to purchase those portable classrooms we're still making those decisions on if it's best to rent or buy um we're chasing a few things down um this week and we'll certainly update you but we do want to act in short order as the reason we want to bring this to you for your permission um tonight versus wait another month for the next board meeting um depending on the model it's about a break even about three and a half years or so rent for rent versus a lease versus a purchase yeah the reason why I asked is you've got potentially three schools that might use them that's why you know if you if you use up all your money buying them versus renting multiples for each school because I know I've I've heard Logan's heard um multiple times about keeping the gyms open to be gyms because especially at an elementary age those kids need that PE time in December and January that you can't easily get outside and so the to protect that um it might be better to look at renting and getting enough for all the schools that are going possibly need them yeah thanks it it could be there is um I'm learning as I'm going through this because I've I've not been part of uh portable classrooms before um I'm learning of the substantial for lack of better term cost and set up and tear down and and moving them and and getting the hook up to Life Safety Systems with your fire alarms and your PA systems and your networking all that sort of thing so um there's certainly um a lot more to it than just you know signing on the D line so to speak wait for them to to show up so I will I will mention the the immediate concern at at at Schmid as Dr Phils mentioned is that increasingly um that increased enrollment that keeps trending up um is this as a remedy in the Here and Now for Schmid uh but certainly in the future um to be considered for for that that solution if it if it's needed elsewhere or others the the other thing with that um it's certainly not going to be attractive to do but uh looking at like a tin and Awning place so that walkways between the classrooms and the schools are covered at least in a couple of places so that in inclement weather kids can get in and out of school without getting drenched there there are some Creative Solutions to that that we're that we're exploring we're there's a setback I'll get into too many details that you don't care about but there's a setb for the building we have can't have it too close because of fire code and and Etc but um but we're we're exploring some of those those options as well so thank you okay any other questions or comments okay I think we had a motion and a second to approve items 10 a through J all those in favor please say I I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries 70 thank you thank you yeah thank you president Wen Dr Phillips and members of the board of school trustees the human resources recommendations for this evening consist of two appointments and two resignations I request that you please approve the recommendations as presented in the board packet I move that we approve the HR recommendations under number 11 letter a is presented by Dr stal bom second thank you Mr gon Mr major any questions or comments from from the team okay all those in favor of approving item 11a Human Resources recommendations as presented tonight please say I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries 70 the additional Human Resources recommendation for this evening consists of one appointment I request that you please approve the additional Human Resources recommendation as presented in your packet I move to approve line item 11b as presented second thank you Mr Schultz and Mr major any questions or comments from the team okay Motion in a second to approve item 11b additional Human Resources recommendations all in favor please say I I alls oppos please say nay motion carries 70 thank you okay time for board input and review Mr Bryant would you like to start tonight the uh new buildings unless you get them all together can you invite me back so see what's going on we'll consider that yeah it's short time between our meetings the big thing for me is just to thank all of those veterans we did that earlier tonight thank you for all that you've done and the communities in the world to keep us safe and give us the freedoms that we have today uh congratulate again hanlin and Anastasia both on their uh state champ and certificate and then um thankfully I think uh everybody's happy that all this election stuff is over so just want to congratulate Nicky Whitney and Tom uh they get to sit in here next year so congrat congratulations uh it was great to hear from students and teachers tonight um there were great elements in the presentations that we heard I'd also uh like to I'm sure everybody on the board would like to thank everybody that ran um we're a better Community better school board because we have people that are interested in this work so thank you Dr Philips you'll be including around would you like to say anything um I'll just Echo theirs as as we all do but um also want to thank all the volunteers who came out yesterday for the school Foundation event um really is amazing how many people it takes to pull something like that off and um it was a lot of Staff members and community members that came out and helped out and Mr Grimes Liam made his layup in fewer attempts than I did two two you were yeah yes it was good um I also want to say this is our second meeting where uh in a row where we've had students come and present that have just totally floored me in their character and their um ability to stand up and talk in front of a room and they just did a nice job that I would appreciate that we continue that Trend going forward um and also I think in terms of the election I I felt like the school corporation did a nice job of trying to prepare um students staff Etc on just being prepared for what might come um and I think everything was very calm and quiet I didn't hear of a lot of issues that occurred in our schools it can be a very difficult time for people and I think we tried to get ahead of it and and appreciate the thoughtfulness in in that this year Mr yeah once again thank you to the veterans who have sacrific so much uh thanks again to all six candidates who who ran for the school board in this recent election and congratulations to Mrs wien Mrs Lloyd Mr Glick and um thanks to all those that uh shared and provided an update here this evening and for all those that have worked uh countless hours behind the scenes on uh providing the most recent Invision 2030 um update on Smith north side and the new elementary and um I I certainly don't want to make anybody think that I'm not going to take my last month and a halfish as a school board member um not seriously because I certainly am but um our last meeting because of our roll call votes I was reminded of a pirate joke so um here here are three and so you can on some more uh the last meeting in December too so being relatively close to Thanksgiving I'll start with the one that some might I you know I hope not many but some might consider mildly inappropriate um name what what's something that's usually insulting but not on Thanksgiving when a family member or friend gives you the bird sorry all right the last two are just cute um what what sound does a turkey phone make wing wing and then uh what do uh little sweet potatoes wear to bed they're yammies I'm done thanks third one was the best one wrote All I yeah I don't know I don't have any jokes I don't have any jokes either I will say when I taught seventh grade we had one class that had a it started every day with a joke and I always had to say is it appropriate and if they thought very long then no it does um so I have three things I um I don't usually talk about supplemental contracts but I noticed that in this um the supplemental contracts that we got this time that C4 teachers were compensated for their preparation time and pres presentation time for the stem event that they did for girls and I just want to commend Dr Jean hack and C4 for um respecting teachers time and communicating to them that they are valued by by paying them for their efforts I wish we could always do that and then on the other side where we can't always do that um I attended the Schmidt Fall Festival the day after Halloween um and it was it was um commendable to see the number of staff and teachers that were there not being paid but offering something to their students and the families and um the school community that was very well received there were kids lined up from one end of the kids and families from one end of the parking lot to the other um and then and at actually at the end of the parking lot I have to give a special call out um one of our bcsc bus drivers was there with his bus Kenny Redfield was handing out um treats to the kids and he to his credit he actually had just recently switched from a Schmidt route to a Richard's route but he wanted to come back and do this for his um kids at Schmid and the fact that we have staff and teachers that are willing to do that kind of thing is just wonderful um also oh in terms of tonight's meeting I wanted to um assure Mr Williams we might not have had any had any questions for your presentation but it was very inspiring and I appreciate it um and finally um Rachel McCarver and Roth lovens who are the um media teachers at North High School took for 14 students um to Philadelphia for a national um school media um Publications conference and seven of them walked away with national recognition um senior Reggie hul Queen Mia and juniors Mia Bowers Gabby Ruble um Lewis guest guest sorry Clare Rawlings oh sophomores Clare Rawlings Bella Herbert and Levi Tobias um and in addition to the student awards um noris newspaper the triangle was um placed fifth in the nation for school newspapers and no jokes yeah no jokes here either the outside about being at the end is really you just end up echoing everything so I'm going to thank the veterans I'm also going to thank all the presenters especially the Moshi I'd never heard the background of that and so interesting coming up through bcsc and hearing the long-standing relationship shs thank you okay I believe our next meeting is on December 2nd 5:15 it is an executive session so that will be board members only uh we then have a reception for retiring board members all retiring board members will be in attendance Mr Brian and Mr Grimes um on December 9th at 6:00 p.m um here in the admin building and then our regular board meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m.

[Music] n [Music] that's professional [Music] you doing this what was that welcome to week six of ihn regular season this will be the last competitive week week of the Fall Split I can't talk keep going I know I can't I can't talk continue not being today Bluff and cyber tigers cyber Tigers will be facing off against players from 23 other other schools totaling to 53 players through Indiana Oh no throughout Indiana in a game game of tetrio in this s what Swiss style Swiss style oh my gosh holy crap it's all right Swiss style bracket you can do it players will attempt to be to win best of five in One V one matches you want to do names yeah there we go perfect he got through it ladies and gentlemen it just makes me so mad seeing people who aren't as perfect and talented and amazing at everything as I am L listen here what I'm I'm listening yes thank you and I approve okay anyway true I believe it is time to do names everyone's favorite part of a Tetris stream me screaming at the top of my lungs n anyway n nuh you do Nam now you know everyone in the live chat it's probably like three people tell me right now that I'm amazing at everything that I do and you want to hear me screaming names for some reason anyway let's go to that part you haven't done the names yet I'm supposed to wait on the viewers screens the faces have to show up yeahuh H yes why is the side of your forehead sweaty cuz it's hot in here no it's not it's getting hot I'm wearing a hoodie so take off I'm sorry I'm a minor anyway let's let's go all right introducing first we have currently in 11th place overall EMT AKA Lego Master up next currently 26th Place overall Owen AKA oh sheets up next currently 28th Place overall Alex AKA Gil LS signing off we're not signing off no we have half of the team left to go up next currently in fourth place overall Baro AKA X dark ninja next up currently in sixth place overall Jordan aka stricky X1 up next currently in third place overall the captain of the team the one everyone wants to see Hunter lazy Soul sugar Lords you don't have to be so loud yes I do and finally to round out the roster currently in seventh place overall clay AKA Firestorm I think they could hear you you don't need to yell that's okay they deserve to hear me cuz they're so good at Tetris I've never I don't know where tetr you've never played Tetris well you're going to see it that's the whole reason you're here yeah that's why I'm here anyway um this is something that you will learn about Tetris we never play matches it takes a while to play the matches actually you know I think we might have one going on right now though no he just solo no he's he's got it is yeah I believe I believe we do have Owen playing a matchup I guess we do or we go to Owen see how he's doing yeah here we go Owen facing off he is in the middle of your screen and his opponent is in that uh little right small corner by himself alone and Afraid yes for real afraid because he is facing a cyber tiger you're you should always be afraid when you're facing a cyber tiger no yeah you're you're you're supposed to be supporting us anyway oh oh I see this is actually uh Owen versus Alex right here Alex is that uh small uh part on the right of your screen so yeah it's oh sheets in the middle of your screen versus Gail Lewis just a little treat of what's going to happen yes yes they can't hear what ooh you can't see it but there's a crane outside or something I don't know what that is that is a lift lift that is a lift I'm not forklift certified I don't know that stuff you don't need to be for oh my gosh I need to be forklift certified AK and and whatever you need to be forklift educated yeah sure that you need forklift edicated anyway let's stop talking about forklift let's start talking about Tetris cuz we have Jordan aka sterie on the left side of your screen facing off against EMT the Lego Master on the right side of your screen I like Legos yeah Legos they're cool everyone played with Legos unless you didn't play with Legos Peak commentary we incredible anyway oh we do have Jordan get some getting some good combos they're in about uh roughly the same part of the screen as each other right now here you go oh Jordan potentially setting up a t- spin got only got a single out of it so this is a very important part of Tetris especially competitive Tetris the t- spins where you make a t-shaped block and you spin a t block into it and it'll do massive damage just clearing two lines if it's from a t- spin it will do as much as clearing four lines normally yeah and there it is you can see the effectiveness of t spins that is going to be Jordan getting round one on EMT why are there so many cyber tiger V cyber tiger matchups they they hate to see us succeed here in the league CU they're warming up I don't are we warming up I'm not sure we are we see a lot of oh we see a lot of cyber tiger versus cyber tiger matchs it was a voice crack okay that was that was not a voice crack that was something else that that was something that was a demonic being taking over my body anyway anyway yeah we do have a lot of cybera versus cybera matchups in bracket and yeah I believe this is uh round one currently yeah so yeah these they're very common the pretty much for them this is basically just a warm up yeah pretty much but you know a serious warm-up that's worth Point serious warm speaking points that is points gained for Jordan that's going to be a victory for him round stroke is not a member of our cyber Tigers so this is we have our first non cyber tiger V cyber tiger match yeah we have Hunter the lazy Soul on the left side of your screen and his opponent on the right sending through a quad could that finish this match it's going to get very close to it heat stroke playing very close to the edge Hunters got to find something to finish here catch no he cannot catch it there is Hunter taking Hunter's taking one point yeah that's taking round one these are best three out of five matchups so first to three points is the winner of the match what what what's so funny I said no you said nuh that's your catchphrase nuh pretty much we like catchphrases here in the Cyber tiger me personally since I am an Isabel player in Smash Bros who is a dog my catchphrase is whenever I get a big win I go Peak commentary once again I'm so good meanwhile while I'm ring that is Hunter taking another round very nice and Alex won his against uh Owen yes thank you for mentioning that good victory for Alex that is going to be some nice points coming through or is it yes it will you don't you don't have to make it all my serious anyway we got Clay on the left side of your screen under the gamertag nightwalk uh going up against his opponent on the right cheer for the left cheer for the left do that in pretty much all these matches you're going to want to cheer for the left unless you're watching Owen he's got a setting on that makes it so his board is in the middle that makes it way easier for everything honestly I feel like every cyber tiger should do it me personally in my opinion I think should be but anyway that is going to be clay getting a round one Victory very nice he gets three points going to his his name mhm meanwhile looks like ye stroke has taken a round off of Hunter while we were watching some other matchups yeah but still Hunter is on Match Point here he just needs to win one more round to win the set and gain those very important points they're super important for Hunter cuz he's currently third in the league just one lost matchup could be detrimental to his position but if anyone can keep that position it is lazy Soul as you can see right there that is going to be Hunter getting a round one Victory all right uh good matchups we saw in round one lots of cyber tiger be cyber tiger ones pretty much uh I believe all the ones that weren't cyber tiger versus cyber tiger the Cyber Tigers won right yeah yeah believe so very good round one for the Cyber Tigers very successful anyway uh before we go to a short break which is very likely would like to give a quick shout out to some of our sponsors first of all Adams Wells we got a huge shout out to our sponsor uh your local internet provider Adams Wells internet Telecom and TV yeah they are directly responsible for our eorts players and the fact that they were able to compete because they're incredibly flat FL yeah fast and reliable fiber internet service if you're in the market for Internet TV or phone service check out adamswells.com I'll repeat that again adamswells.com huge shout out to them they're very cool and then our next sponsor the Moose garage special thanks to the Moose garage for sponsoring our event as well check out the garage here in town on Main Street it's a cafe Game Room music venue for the Youth of the bluff and hangout like a very cyber tiger spot yes it really it really does feel like it yeah I'm going to need to go there sometime thank you for the Moose garage 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for OverWatch tomorrow blued cyber Tigers versus Scottsburg yeah let's go and we're going to win let's go cyber Tigers I'm going to be in that match which is why you should tune in tomorrow at 5: and then the tomorrow of tomorrow I'm also going to be in that so you should also T sorry so you should n [Music] oh [Music]

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with what he's been given does not look like he can that is Hunter going up 20 now if all right excuse me let's see what they can do round three match point for Hunter if H if Hunter ends up somehow losing this he will actually go down from from third place probably yeah the the landscape right now is there's a you know at the top there's uh Hunter Opie or opai however you pronounce it and stalo oh but of course why is why would he not be up there yes for real up there last what Jonas brother why would he not be up there brother the first time I saw him I immediately my immediate thought was that he looked like was in a boy band yeah stalo specifically his hair like blond and over to the side tall you know looks like Hunter will be winning this and then we go to Owen facing oh someone you can barely make out the name I I can barely make out the name but whatever it's the op that's all that matters yeah as the kids say the yeah the op yeah I can tell you're disappointed in me are really am yes oh that's his name ostriches ostriches yeah yeah ostriches yes as a fellow bird I approve of that oh my no please stop my gamertags blue J it's a bird yeah I can look at up right now blue jay's a bird no oh y I'll reveal your secret right now on live if you test me what this guy eats pizza and you eat the crust only yeah so what what's what's your point I like the bread I don't really like cheese I mean you cut that you cut that off I'll take the pizza I'm fine with that okay all right yeah okay a deal has been made live live on stream yes yes yes yeah uh meanwhile we got some other results coming in we got uh Baro getting the victory as well as Jordan so bolo and Jordan both of the Cyber Tigers both getting victories good for them big wins for the Cyber Tigers today we've been seeing a lot of that very what you like to see yes exactly it's what they came to see like we're going to Clay now facing oh facing a different Jaden this is not me are you sure yes I am sure we just for real that's what I'm that's exactly what it sounds like too yes you barely heard it but anyway that is going to be clay with a victory very very nice as that is that round two that went by fast yeah that was round two H crazy so how's your day going uh it's going good good as his ostriches because he is going to unfortunately get a victory over our Owen how sad how sad but yeah this is looking like a very good uh day for the Cyber Tigers lots of the first loss for today yeah very against uh whoever Hunter could think oh yeah yeah Hunter yeah the the Cyber tiger matchups and then that one exception you know it's been count the Cyber tiger against cyber tiger as a loss yeah for real we don't yeah it's been it's been uh very nice I believe we do still have one more uh round two matchup it is Alex but I'm not sure if we can show that on stream I believe there's some te technical difficulties unfortunately can't pull it up yes you know technology always not working it's very cool it's very cool yes yes whale whale whale technology not working [Music] how she say we're in a can't come up with the word I don't know I couldn't think of anything either yeah well I guess since we can't show you the match up we'll just give an update on it he is currently uh that match is currently two to two it's going to a it's going to a game five and we can't see it over time great yes yes ah see yeah we got to think of something to talk about while uh so who are you going to be playing in OverWatch tomorrow uh tomorrow I'll most likely be playing Juno unless the comp uh specifically wants someone else like KIRO maybe a Baptist but yeah my man is usually Juno arari allari no yes allari is like one of the most irrelevant characters in the entire game she has the best healing output no she doesn't oh you know what I'll show you later okay I'll show you later all right but yeah tuned in uh tomorrow to see uh the blon Cyber Tigers OverWatch Squad Take on Scottsburg and tune in the tomorrow of tomorrow to see the bluff and cyber tiger smash Squad led by me the coolest person in this entire School fact check me I am correct factually in every way possible stop that I saw that yeah we'll be taking on Hobart it's going to be a great match where the two undefeated teams in the league clashing conveniently at the week six Mark how crazy is that scripted for real you guys also face had the week six last last season too us and Hobart yeah no it was us and Oregon Davis last yearart wasn't even on our division last year they weren't I thought they were yeah we're we're double A this year yeah never mind that's right yeah we crossed the threshold by seven students or so mhm it's very cool yes yes yes yes yes very mm yes mhm yeah we're going to see if we can become the Undisputed best team in the league at the moment on Wednesday tune in to see that you'll get to see me and I know you want to see more of me for real stop that refrain whatever what other other synonyms there are for English stop yeah English don't talk to me about English Mr welcome to week listen five I haven't done this in a while cut me some slack I I'm not going to cut you any slack no slack will be cut no slack is cut here at the Cyber Tigers unless you're like on a JV team or something I don't know listen being the oldest member of this team I should yeah I am I did rocket League when it first came out oh good job which I believe that was the first believe that was the longest they started rocket league first I do believe yeah they were in their first year but let's stop talking about rocket League League because we got some updates Baro unfortunately is going to is that right Baro lost yes B Baro unfortunately going to take a loss um we don't know about that uh about the G Lewis match up but whatever anyway let's go to our sponsors you know what's cooler than losing sponsorships one of which Adams Wells huge shout out to our local internet provider Adams Wells internet Telecom and TV they are directly responsible for our Esports players being able to compete because of their incredibly fast and reliable fiber internet service never mind guest bolo did actually win his we had a typo it's okay oopsy Doodles you know what's not an oopsy doodle Adams Wells whatever that means yeah if you're in the market for Internet TV or phone service check out adamswells.com that's adamswells.com and then we got moose the Moose garage special thanks to the Moose garage for sponsoring our event as well check out the garage here on here in town on Main Street it's a cafe game room and music venue for the Youth of bluon to hang out once again moose garage located on Main Street yes they're very cool I've never been there but they are very cool yes seriously you've never been there yeah I never been there what I was I was just like oh no I'm a gamer and that's a place where people hang out I should stay away from that I should just stay in my car driving Dairy Queen every other day yeah for real I love Dairy Queen they're cool they should sponsor us yeah that'll be worth their time you know what is worth our time auction it they're very cool do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea hey hey I think you need to chill no okay it's my entire gimick that I'm loud and energetic I spend the entire day keeping it all in just so I can release it live on stream for you to watch yes you Susan you get to watch this auction is an online in person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more at auction.io that's auction.io yeah [Music] a [Music] hello you saw me doing that anyway the reason I reacted like that uh is because Hunter just took second place in the league Ah that's incredible they're poor ears yes I don't think I don't think you need to yell under the mic I'm yes I do because Hunter just took second in the league whatever they said you know it'd be a shame if that chair just went yes it would be that would be a real shame yeah oh no yeah Hunter takes second place in the league that is huge right on week six especially for him yes and for everyone yeah in the Cyber in the entire School ah very good anyway I should come Cal down I have a difficult time calming down when I've already not been calm down do you need do you need a hug no I do not I need to find a way out of this Dimension we need to bring it up again that we're in the vapor wave Dimension right now I don't want to be well unfortunately you are and I've been forced to commentate Tetris matches for my entire life uh-uh yes this is not this is not a consensual choice to be commentating I being forced against my will by the Cyber Tigers to to commentate please help me help me complaints but okay whatever sure anyway we have Clay on the left side of your screen taking on Yeet stroke who's been facing a lot of cyber Tigers tonight yeah he is on the right side of the screen root for the guy on the left he's a cyber tiger he's clay yeah yay yeah ye stroke is just going through the Cyber tiger Gauntlet right now meanwhile a rough position for clay that is unfortunate that is ye stroke taking the round one Victory I feel like he is just wanning the smoke against the Cyber Tigers yes I feel like this was a person this was a personal attack truly a personal attack this is this is our enemy this is our rival for real yeah I know sto is yeah but like this this one this one is also you know how like Sonic doesn't just have to fight Eggman he also has to Fight Shadow it's like that sort of thing this a sub other villain is silver a bad guy I don't know I don't I don't pay attention to Sonic I played the I play the Olympic Games spin-off shout out London 2012 Olympic Games that was awesome all about that yeah thanks London for hosting the 2012 Olympic Games so Sonic and Mario at the London 2012 Olympic Games could become a game thank you for that first good thing London has ever done anyway let me stop throwing shade at an entire land mass and let's go back to Tetris like is stroke he's got some holes in his board let's see if clay can get the finishing touches here's a quad coming through and a single and a double nice that's going to be enough even up evened up meanwhile that is going to be uh off screen Hunter has taken a round three Victory very nice for him he's going to be retaining his spot most likely very good very good meanwhile clay oh clay going off of the screen as we go to EMT who's currently down 02 against it's Pauls uh we got EMT on the left side of your screen route for the guy on the left remember that when you're watching Tetris yes yes what is that you can't see it but he did he did something I don't know got the left in the room I guess oh yeah you were like you were making I'm stupid and I don't know how to tell my directions joke ah yes yes yes very funny yes yes surprised it took you that long to catch on to it meanwhile another uh offscreen development Alex has unfortunately lost his matchup to ostrich that's another person who's been playing a lot of cyber Tigers let's see oh unfortunate placement of that O block for T block EMT no no it's the o t Block it's the what do you mean t block T block what do you mean t block line piece line pie yeah he didn't place a line piece line piece okay line piece ladies and gentlemen yeah we line pieces meanwhile uh seems that clay and E stroke are still in the middle of their uh round three to see who gets Match Point here this is the battle for match point this is not match point this is the battle to see who gets match point if you're ever confused about the score just look up to the top of your screen uh Clay is the one highlighted in blue meanwhile ye stroke at a high point in his board looking rough for him Clay's got to find some sort of finishing move the triple could that be enough Paul is almost digging his way out not Paul yeets is almost digging his way out yeah ye stroke digs himself out of that hole like he he's putting the offense on it's like n Hawk does nice recovery from ye stroke that is going to bring this to match point let's see if clay can make this recovery meanwhile another offscreen development Jordan has won his round three matchup very nice good for him yeah you've just been focusing on like the couple yeah you know have been happening made a lot of offscreen developments yes yes yes yes very good very good yes yes let's see what these two can do here clay has got to win the next two rounds ye stroke only has to win one following round Owen's still in his match mad comes through from clay let's see what else he can do a good singles combo what the the friend request okay let's see he's got a soless taking they're getting roughly to the same position on the board clay has done a good job fighting himself out of the high board position yeah that's a potential t- spin yeah it's looking like he's going to set up for it he's just got to wait for the T Block it's coming up there it is there's a t- spin very nice good combo there I don't have the brain cells to do it te- spin looks like he will be winning round four there yeah there we go very nice combo from clay to take him round four we are going to a round five here overtime y baby yeah baby let's go here he goes he's setting up the te- spin double potentially another one yet set up oh he really does oh my goodness oh and he he messed up the all clear but that's okay he still got e stroke on the ropes let's see what he can do here what are you doing you're doing the lethal company dance okay I love how you do that yes s and CH was didn't know what I was doing oh they didn't know wow they didn't know what it was wow you I love how you do that right away do you love about me Po what let's not do that on stream let's not let's not make those jokes he got to keep it family friendly yeah yeah yeah oh meanwhile e stroke in a difficult position he's going to get some good combos coming through though clay looking to counter this is a very close match see if he sets up for another te- spin let's see here I think he's setting up for a I think he wants a quad but he's not not finding a good he can't find the position for he's not finding the hole there he found the hole and look oh that's a difficult spot see he cannot he's going to miss the he's going to miss the hole and that's unfortunate that's going to be looks like we're going to oh just barely alone yeah we got we got Owen here on the middle of your screen let's recover from that Typical Gamer I had to he's doing well he's two and0 right now yeah currently match point for Owen if he can win this round you know what that Target is uh the target oh yeah that little uh Crosshair yeah you know what that's for yeah that's for targeting which opponent you want to use it's mostly for uh you know multi-person matchups but it just automatically targets the last person standing if it's a okay so okay yeah that's that's more intended for multi-person like party matchups but I guess it's being used in this case for some reason okay I to say because I saw it last time I wasn't sure what it was yeah Owen pretty high up on the board right now he can can still afford to lose this round if he does yep he's going to I needed to clear that was the only way to clear yes but yeah um he either Owen either needs to win this round or if he loses this round he needs to win the next round in order to gain either way he needs to win around to gain the points yeah he just needs to win around to to win the matchup and then I believe we go into game not game bracket what four um I believe three or four yeah I think we'll take a look at the bracket after this matchup yeah let's see I believe he's setting up for a Oh I thought he was going to be setting up for a quad but no he's going to get a quick combo in there throwing some small garbage at his opponent there's a triple howy you can you can never overshoot it mhm let see what he's setting up for a single single combo going to misplace that one oh he gets uh he could have put he could have moved the um l l block over a little bit and plug up that Gap but I guess he doesn't true he's going to get a nice combo does clear it though yep ow seems to be very uh like small combo based game playay he be locked yes he be locked for real on J on we're we're so young and hip yes you are yes I am yes young people love me that's weird I was doing this again doing oh you doing that thing he's telling me no again you don't know that young people love me I'm so cool you know what else is cool round fours fours yeah multiple ones since it's going to be multiple cyber playing round four round four yeah I believe there's a round four today I believe we're being informed in four four get it because like four stop yelling at me it's funny laugh now do it ha haa H good job impressive work you know who else just put in that impressive work Owen he is going to get that Victory 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could use an awesome fundraising idea auction it is an online and in-person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more at auction.io that's auction.io and we will be right back not not really if we're leaving I don't know maybe are we leaving I'm not sure who knows I mean that was round three but there's potential talk of a round four yeah so who could know who knows I don't [Music] yes stupid oh my goodness we're back I believe so fancy Contraption made for aliens all right we're good so you figured out so you're an alien yes me alien couldn't you just tell by looking at me anyway you know who else are aliens these guys they must be because of how talented they are at Tetris we currently have emit the Lego Master on the left side of your screen taking on stubby panda on the right root for the guy on the left because that's our cyber tiger oh my goodness what are you doing here have you come to join us you brought me more food this is mine we might have a special guest come on say hello with one of our mics seriously they're going to think it was me who it you'll be fine I'm not going to know that's your switch I mean they are now because I just said it out loud but like it's not in frame yeah just you can sit it right there and it's not in frame you know get over get over here what do you have to say to the world what do you have to I'm scared that's what you have to say that's what you have to say they're very pushy but High World okay there there you go she did it she did the how dare you he pushed my chair away what a meanie is that normal for him though I mean yeah kind of it's the first time he's done it today oh my bad my shoes untied man ty shoes is for wussies for real it is for wussies that's why I tie itens then put it right here all right while we were having uh silly fun times here in the streaming room uh we do have EMT going up 20 against stubby Panda very nice y very nice very nice yes yes that yes that was very funny according to you yes H let's see let's see if emit can we're not going to see we're not going to see all right that that's fine we have Baro on the left side of your screen going up against the opponent anano on the right route for the on the left cuz that is your cyber tiger Baro X dark ninja what are those numbers popping up on the board for those numbers popping up on the board like the five six I believe those are squares yeah I believe those are like that's might be the combo that he's achieving okay yeah I I've never seen that that's why I was just asking yeah it's weird it's trippy it's like EMT wins his yes and very good for him yes yes round four victory the truly truly overtime round this is not normal for our league round four I guess it's a special treat for yeah yeah for real yeah let's see here let's see what Baro can do up against anano Baro currently up a one round to none against anano he's in kind of a seemingly difficult position that's going to be a Mis drop looks like Jordan wins his match very nice for him we got fast to slow matches going on right now yeah Baro with a quad into a t-pin double that's going to be massive damage coming through that's going to be a round one off of that combo very nice impressive performance that is why he is fourth overall in the entire league yeah and that's why we're switching off anyway we have Hunter on the left side of your screen getting a te- spin oh it's like he wins round two of his match very impressive incredible combo I could barely even tell what was going on that's how good he is at placing blocks down fast yes yes yes yes very good very good immediate T spin double and now he's just standing there menacingly like the guy from SpongeBob he just standed there menacingly yeah comedy yeah yeah I sh almost chokes our food yes we have tell me I'm wrong yes we have the current number two in the league right now going to work on the left side of your screen you are watching this live you are watching a master at work look at the quad double oh my goodness the Dorito Logo Pop Up and crosshairs yes exactly we need that we need that that would be hilarious anyway we're back to that uh we're back to that Bara matchup he's currently up two rounds To None looking for a finish here on anio let's see a double is that going to be enough no I don't think so probably not setting up for a t- spin double like he had a quad in the bag right there but he didn't he didn't even get to use it yeah that's how cool he is yes yes he doesn't even need the full power yes yes meanwhile tough spot here for Clay on the left side of your screen is he going to fight out of this oh okay he's not going to very close to it though oh all he has oh we have another round five situation here for time ah let's see if clay can pull it off here moving a lot faster than rock and roll M trying to spin that in place he's going to do it we're being very silent this is a very intense game play Oh My Gosh the line L the line piece let's go Tigers this yeah for real say that mic say to the m say that to the mic let's go Tigers you got this yeah Tigers cyber Tigers let's go come on loud excitement incoherent screaming the dble coming through yay from clay yay he's high on the board but he is not out yet very nice L spin to fill in a gap no no he had Rock had a little hole that the line block slipped into and he couldn't move it very sad very unfortunate but yeah we do have a uh Alex on the left side of your screen stop laughing he's going to be very mad at me isn't he but like to be fair it's a part of the Bas the terminology nuh yeah nuh you got to stop like toddlers I have no clue what she talking about hey you want to say that in the M they act like toddlers I hope you'll know this what come for seen a toddler they act way worse than us they're horrible on the weekends I live with like a seven-year-old he's awful and like that that you're talking lower level Lewis will be looks like we have another overtime match oh my goodness another game five how could this be because because oh yes yes yes I did not take that into account because yeah let's see it's going to be Alex Gale Le saving up for a quad into a double on let's see here stacking up looking to get something going here thinking about dropping the quad into the hole he's not going to oh there's a little uh wave off screen triple coming through because the messiness on the bottom of the board that's not going to be a quad oh very very nice that's going to be a game five situation that we take home that is going to be Alex Gail Lewis taking home the victory very good and I believe round four was going to be our last round of the night do believe it yes we have finished we have done it now I can keep looking out for a exit to the vapor wave Dimension I would love oh my goodness that's with us off screen throw your shirt no okay okay how unfortunate I'll just sit antisocial much well I mean cyber tiger moment yes yes yes but yeah disappear from this thank you for joining us this evening we will be back tomorrow at at 500 p.m thankss at 5:00 p.m.

thank you thank you and be I know you're a little bit early but we'll be starting shortly with the student of the month we thank you uh right now we start with aoll hearing you're welcome to stay uh we more than welcome to use the restroom uh we be e e e we'll go ahead and call tonight's meeting to order today's dat is Tuesday November 12th 2024 bar re High School District regular governing board meeting um as I call the meeting to order I want to of course reiterate and um support our Administration and the entire District by sharing with you our vision mission and purpose statements our vision statement is our students will be loved encouraged and prepared to Take On The World by embracing our himd duck our mission statement is we create healthy inspiring motivating developing achieving graduates and our purpose statement is we create a nurturing learning environment for every child every day with an additional commitment to support our hdu for those of you who may not know hdu is the aome word meaning our way of life and as a board and representatives of the community we want to continue to uphold and of course uh impress on not only the community but uh the district at large that our culture and our heritage is as important as um anything we do throughout the day so in education and as much as we can we encourage the use of the as well as any and all um ways that we can lift up the culture and Heritage uh for the district for our students and of course um in any way possible through our education system provided here as a as a public school on tribal lands it is our purpose and our and our mission to be able to do as such and of course representatives of the community with that I'll turn it over to Mr sabalo for roll call syia Hendricks El gwood here anamar Stevens here that completes role okay we do have a quorum we'll continue with this evening's agenda uh our next item is the Pledge of Allegiance if you are able please stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance I ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] thank you letter D this evening is our routine business number one is the approval of the no November 12 2024 board meeting agenda governing board members I do have a couple of changes I want to address as we approve the agenda um first off is the removal of action item six to be brought back until uh at our next um board meeting so we're removing number six which is the bobber Q Unified School District FY 2023 annual audit and placed on the December agenda I'd like to also address uh action item number two to clarify that is discussion and possible approval of uh reclassification and permanent appointment for the barbecue V middle and high school principal in addition to a correction to the agenda I'd also like to address the action item number nine It should read discussion discussion and possible approval of the recommendation from bobber keber Unified School District legal council to make an effort to recuperate funds of overpayment claims Mr Das is there anything else or govern any board members anything else not at this point president M thank you sir if there are no objections I would like to motion to approve with those Corrections and amendments second second by Miss El Gort all those in favor the motion iing M motion Carri motion carries number two is our approval of the October 15 2024 public hearing minutes governing board with your approval we' also I'd also like to request to approve October 15 2024 regular board meeting minutes as one action item if there are no objections a motion to approve second by Miss anamarie Stevens all those in favor of the motion W Mo gwood Stevens motion carries number four is our call to the audience no call to the audience for the record we have no call to the audience we'll continue with our agenda this evening letter e is the information items number one is our Bob Q Student Council report Mr Diaz President W uh members of the community it is with a great honor that I would like to introduce our officers for our student council for this year I will ask the student council president to please join Mr Eli and his members and to introduce themselves and at this point um it is one also one of my favorite Parts because I get to step down as a superintendent so I can Le my young leaders to lead our district so at this point Mr President um Eli take it away away all right good afternoon good afternoon my name is Eli Johnson and I am the student student council president good afternoon everyone um my name is uh Joshua R I am the vice president of stuko class of 2025 hello I am Justin James ethanes I am the historian uh and I am in class of 2025 good afternoon everyone my name is Sahan Alam I'm the secretary of the executive board in stuko and I am part of class 2025 skook Das everybody my name is jessicaa and I am the treasure for the executive board for um executive student council thank you skook everybody my name is Jasmine Hendricks and I am class of 2026 just a quick update we do not have a class period for student council so when we do our meeting meetings we will do be doing them during lunch um next s so the time um with the meetings being during lunch it gives us limited time to plan things but also we will only be able to most likely well make the meetings for January March and May um this presentation is just a big rundown of what we did this past quarter we had a pep assembly we had homecoming we had a couple Spirit weeks um overview of the volleyball and football and some of the senior nights that happened greetings everyone um today I will uh talk about about um what happened during this event here uh during the first quarter we did a fall pep assembly uh during The Fall season and during this time we uh introduced the the students who participated in the sports event uh of football volleyball and uh the cross country team and during this time as well the uh the cheer and we also introduced the class um officers during this time and after a while we introduced the homecoming royalties next page and so after that the homecoming game uh the event was we did a a very wonderful work a creative mind with all class right here we did a float for um each of the classes and everyone um had a wonderful time and um they showed great creativity and the um um the the the king and queen for these uh the homecoming is Mila and TSH and um the movie or the theme of this float is uh the universals I think thanks oh okay um during this time also had Spirit weeks and um the events that happened this time uh the ones that we took a photo with where the twin day the class callor day and anything but a backpack day and um I'm glad to see that everyone uh got to participate in it thanks cool um so first we're recognizing our volleyball season the coach was Wana Antonio just how much can commitment everyone had and just it made everybody feel welcome yeah just that's all next uh is our football season who the coach was Richard Garcia AKA Cody they were ranked number six in the region also and their stat was 1 to eight in their conference but they did a good job and they tried the very hardest Eli do you want to say something about that okay okay next one please okay next up is our cross country season who our coach was Joseph me at regionals the boys placed 11 oh wait sorry oops at Regional the boys placed first in the region which is very exciting it hasn't happened in I don't know how many years um and Mila Johnson and I I qualified for State at State the boys placed 11th at State and Mila placed seventh while I placed 86 and this this season has been very successful season I would say we all worked our very hardest and our commitment was very high dedication is very high I'd say um I'm proud of all of us and how hard we worked and yeah thank you co okay um for our senior nights the class of 20125 oh can you go back please thank you okay on senior night we recognized our football seniors on September give me a second September 27th there was we recognized our B seniors and our cross country seniors and on October sorry October 22nd we recognized our volleyball seniors and it was pretty really good nights I'm not sure what to say of that it was beautiful thank you so this is this this is all the possible upcoming events and to this first the first one is bubble day and for bubble day we are planning on selling and for spirit week we are planning on various um events that we will um start and for the third one is the 4v4 basketball tournament event in the school and for the fourth is the Winter Haven field trip it is a field trip for student council and for the fifth one is the basketball Seasons we are excited for this basketball seasons and for the food trading event is uh we are also planning on this and it is still a work in progress thank you I think that's pretty much all everyone do you got questions or comments none okay then oh you go Mr DS I want to highlight once again how how proud I am that you are accepting additional responsibilities to be able to make your school a much better experience not only for you but everybody else it takes courage it takes leadership your advocacy and your V always matters so I thank you for being here today representing the entire student council I wish you a very successful year and we look forward having you here and also to invite us in your meeting so we can continue to collaborate let's give him a big round of applause Mella um I just like to um uh com make com comment on uh the the games I to uh a couple of football games and and volleyball game and but I would like to ask um you know we have that Marquee there at the high school but um I wonder why none of the announcements are posted on there all I see is the the date and the temperature you so the community can know what's going on you know and and I don't see at the post office either so what the activities are going on at the high school it would be nice to to um communicate with the community and so and I hope you have a good season so thank you thank you Mella thank you anything Miss just thank you everybody for all your hard work I know it takes commitment um to plan events and get things going and also to the cross country team congratulations and thank you yes thank you you guys so much for being here I know it takes a little bit of an effort to stand up and speak but you guys are doing amazing and again as Mr as a superintendent just said if there are any questions you guys want to pose to not only the board but to him please do so it was a very good communication process we had with the last student council and I want to continue to see that happen because of course we want to be accountable to you as much as we're accountable to everyone else so thank you so much for being here this evening we can't wait to see you in January is that the next dat awesome Mr Diaz and one more thing I also want to uh give a shout out to miss Kinsey Janet kiny she is our district math coach that she has embraced this challenge um also with additional duties in in being the leader and the representative for student council uh let's give our student council this year all of our love with a big hand and also to miss Kinsey for representing us thank you all have a great year thank you very much have a good night thank you see you going item number two this evening is our barbecue Unified School District students of the month Senor Diz sñ Bia at this point uh please help me welcome Miss Jennifer Enriquez to help us and support us with the first uh round of students if is your first time students raise your hand if you are here for the student of the month stand up nice and Tall students of the month please stand up let's give him a big round of applause when thank you here the instructions when you hear your name you going to have to come and you have to shake the hands of Miss Stevens Miss gwood president mundia get myself get your goodies and then we're going to stand up here in the front and you're going to have to ask your parents or families and relatives all 100 of them to come forward for one picture Okay so having said that um I'm going to ask the pictures oh you got your phone all right well let's do that um Mr Ruez please take it away all right good evening board president buendia governing board members superintendent andaz and community members um our first student of the month is from our four-year-old prek class and that's romari Francisco I don't see him but he is from the house of Amistad he was chosen because he has made great progress with his behavior he shows up every day to class with a great attitude and ready to learn he cares about his classmates and always makes sure they are doing okay Rari is the only student in class that has had 100% attendance since school started there he is can I just add special shout out to the parents attendance is super important for our students to learn at such a young age thank you [Music] a part for you you earned it ready hold on hold it [Applause] time okay our next student of the month was nominated from Mrs he's kindergarten class Angel Basa [Applause] he's here he's a little shy Angel basa has been an outstanding role model in our classroom he follows the rules of the classroom and always encourages his classmates to follow the rules he works diligently to complete his work without errors and on time thank you Angel for being a great student from Mrs H when he was asked what he wants to be when he grows up he would like to be a police officer so he can put robbers in ja jail oh can we have Grandpa come up I see other family members out there come join the picture suit [Applause] and now miss spotted wolf will come up and announce her student of the month hello everyone I'm Miss bwolf and I'm here to recognize my student in the first grade um so I would like to honor Mr Connor Jose he is our student of the month he's in the house rever um he's in Miss pow's class and this year this year is Connor's first year in school um he he didn't go to kindergarten and he has been excelling so well in my class um he just showed tremendous class tremendous growth from the start and um Connor is excelling in math and in reading and in writing and on top of that he's always kind respectful and responsible student here at NE Oasis primary school so thank you Conor so much for being such a great student when Connor grows up he wants to be a police officer so he can arrest bad [Applause] guys from second grade Miss adson class Xavian coni Xavian is from the house of Al Turismo he is a great student he always comes to school ready to learn he is very responsible and respectful he is a great role model in the classroom and is always willing to lend a hand when he was asked what he wants to be when he grows up he would also like to be a police officer [Applause] from Miss gowen's third grade classroom we have Evening Star Juan [Applause] I don't see her um evening star is an amazing student she has 100% of her work turned in and does extra read and response for SFA she has been to school on time and present every day she is kind to her classmates and peers and peer tutors when needed when she was asked what she'd like to be when she grows up she said she would like to be a teacher [Applause] and from Miss Jose's hog class is Elijah Harvey oh there he comes Elijah is from the house of Amistad he is kind helpful and participates follows directions and is willing to learn about the aam him thg when he was asked what he'd like to be when he grows up he would like to be a firefighter [Music] [Applause] congratulations please welcome Mr Cody from the intermediate campus you got this you got this all right uh good evening skook Tash um good evening Mr President buend Diz board members pres uh superintendent Mr Diaz and parents um we are very excited to announce the intermediate campus student of the month first from fourth grade fourth grade we have Mr Fuentes Mr Fuentes [Applause] here good evening everyone my name is Mr Fontes and I'm very excited and honored to present and introduce to you the student of the month for fourth grade from my class and from um he's from isind none other than Dimitri Sunny dimitry exe um exemplifies um invaluable qualities and contributions to our classroom Community he consistently exemplifies a positive attitude kindness and un and wavering work ethic moreover Dimitri takes pride in his work completing assignments punctually and always striving for excellence in every way he embodies the spirit of our classroom and serves as an inspiring role model for his peers when asked how can he make the world a better place he said I can make the world a better place by picking up trash cleaning up after myself and helping others especially the elderly good job and congratulations all right thank you Mr Fuentes uh from fifth grade is from my class um I nominated nominated Mr Aiden Velasco he's from the house of isab bendi but um Aiden was not able to join us tonight so I'll just read a little script um from Aiden um Aiden is an amazing student who displays positive beh behavior skills excels academically and works well with others Aiden displayed growth in his district formative assessments and has always come to class with notes and supplies ready for instruction when asked um Aiden how he would make the world better place he centered his Focus around ending starvation and making sure everyone is able to have a healthy and plentiful meal so and we'll make sure Aiden gets his uh bag and award from sixth grade we have Miss uh Wooley I didn't see her um I'll do her report from sixth grade uh Miss Wooley nominated Dron Matthews all right uh Dron is from the house Amistad uh Miss woley shared with us that um Drayson has amazing characteristic traits of responsibility and shows uh respectfulness uh Dron is very mature and uses kind matters on a daily basis towards adults and his peers he is always on task and and completes his assignments on time and shows his best work he is very helpful in the classroom with the morning announcements as well as uh lunch supervision during fifth fourth and fifth grade recess he has become a true leader on our campus and we are very proud to nominate him for student of the month and when asked how he would uh better the world he stated that he would like to become president and make better laws helping people with addiction and making stronger drug laws so thank you all right from our specials we have stem Miss Denny all right good evening skook Kimberly Danny so I nominated patrio hendris from my SFA class and he's in Mr fent's class also so I don't see him here but Patricio is in my success for all class in my Thursday sem class I chose Patricio because he's always on task get engaged in my classes he's a great leader in his SFA group and helps to keep them on task but most importantly Patricio is kind and generous when a classmate is in need of something in class he'll share his things without with them without hesitation and the way he would make the world a better place is to become president and tell them what is good and wrong and they will vote for me and follow the rules all right thank you and now we have secondary we have the amazing Miss ance thank [Applause] you hello board members president buia superintendent Diaz and all our happy family um for the seventh grade team named savior Romero as the October student of the month savior is the son of Amber Ramon savior's home Village is big fields savior is a proud member of rer he is an athlete and played for the babok kri Cougars in football and he's looking forward to basketball season savior's favorite art class is art because it is really fun and I learned a lot being with my friends savior's favorite teacher is Mr Jones because he is fun to work with after graduating from babok kri high school Savor plans to go to college at the University of Arizona so that he can work towards his career in Sports Photography savior would like to thank his mom for respecting his opinions on how he likes to learn as well as his dad Miss roach Mr Jones and Miss SCE for helping him learn congratulations savior we are proud of you [Applause] the eighth graders is here so be ready the eighth grade team names angala tatula as the October student of the month angala is the son of Frank and deina toola Angola's home Village is covered Wells angala is a proud member of the babok kri football team his favorite class is history because he likes learning about the history of things his favorite teaches Mr Cutler because he's a cool guy after graduating from babok ke high school angala plans to play college football and would love to play for LSU if given the chance angala wants to thank his parents for putting a lot of pressure on him congratulations Loa we are proud of [Applause] you Cole wilon is the Freshman Class student of the month for October Cole is the son of edin basa and Marcus Wilson Cole's home Villages cells Cole is a proud member of Amistad Cole is a baseball player his favorite class is AVID because it helps him learn how to plan for his future and get into the right College his favorite teacher is Miss kuatan because she always has a smile on her face after graduating from babok ke High School PL Cole plans to go to college he's unsure which college but knows that Avid will help him decide when graduation grows near Cole would like to thank mom for always pushing him to be his greatest congratulations Cole we are proud of you [Applause] princess nathaly konis is the sophomore class student of the month for October princess is the daughter of Miss honey May and Marvin kones princess's home is Sabu Philippines but she currently resides in CS Arizona princess is a proud member of river her favorite class is art because she loves being creative and following directions her favorite teacher is everyone because she honors all her teachers equally after graduating from Babble K High School princess plans to go to college followed by going on a mission princess would like to express her gratitude for her mother's efforts and Opportunity by bringing her to the United States congratulations princess we are proud of [Applause] you veto Hendrick is the junior class student of the month for October veto is the son of Jay and Derwin Ki veto's um veto is a proud member of river the house of dreamers he is an athlete playing varsity football for the Baba keer Warriors veto's favorite class is Don art with Mr Mikey Enis because veto is an artist and loves the art of his people veto doesn't have a favorite teacher because he accepts and admires all his teachers equally after graduating from babok ke secondary camp VTO plans on seeing what is out there and creating a new pathway for himself and for his family VTO would like to honor and acknowledge Jay and Derwin Ki he would like to thank them for staying strong and always providing a good example of how to live veto would like to say the overcoming of struggle the struggle is real but also beautiful always hold yourself up high congratulations veto we are proud of you [Applause] Dar Darien beay is the senior class student of the month for October Daren go ahead Darion start coming up Daren is the grandson of Georgiana Jose darian's home Village is Ain Daran is a proud member of isab Bendy his favorite class is world history with Miss kaburan because Miss kaban is friendly and a funny person his favorite teacher is Mr Akuna because he makes science interesting after graduating from babok kir high school Daren plans on going to Toc his current career goal is to become a chef Darion would like to thank his grandma for taking care of his family for all these years and for sending us to school we're so proud of you Darien congratulations thank you and up next Mr Barrett Fox [Music] good evening everybody good evening board president buendia board members superintendent thank you guys for staying the ones that are we appreciate that greatly um okay uh so Indian Oasis middle and high school student of the month Mr Mark Blaine come on up Mr Mark Blaine he's here here I saw [Applause] him there he is we we call him big Mark we got a few marks that's big Mark go figure so let me tell you I I really wanted to write a beautiful articulate perfect speech for Mr Mark Blaine that exemplified an amazing student a mature young I remember when I met mark my very first week at work uh he walks into my office and he says hey how what are you doing and I said uh just trying to get my office set up and he jumped up on a chair took the stapler from me and started putting up all the banners and the pictures and and everything else and he's been nothing but a wonderful experience ever since he's a two three time student of the month and keep an eye out for Mr Blaine he's going places Mark I'm so proud of you you don't even understand [Applause] thank you everybody so uh just for the record that will conclude our student of the month portion of the agenda um board members who are going to stay up here because we are going to move on to item number three before I do that I want to say thank you and so so much um on behalf of the board for how much that part of the agenda really hits home because it is important for us to take take a moment and acknowledge those students that are not only excelling but also when we come to the students and parents and all of the recognition that the Guardians want to be able to see and lift up their child we're happy to do so as a board so that is always the best part of our agenda and I and I truly truly cannot um thank any thank all of you enough um from superintendent principls teachers everyone else in between that makes the effort to see the successes that we're proud to be able to stand up here and and support as a board so thank you so much for that at that with that I'll move on to number three which which is our himg award and is in recognition of the barbecue B of High School District High School go please cross country train sorry thank you president Mia members of the community students and it is nothing but a true honor to stand right here right now and present this him award to our athletes um these are students who have have gone above and beyond not only in academics but also they going the extra mile by um spending their time practicing um I'm going to read a letter that I want to honor my students but I also want to need the support of Miss an once I finish reading the letter to she she can call the names of the students so I can uh present them with their necklace but the letter says the following if you don't mind Aaron opening the letter oh nothing here we go the letter reads a little bit there you go um the mission for bab to high school this is to create healthy inspiring inspiring motivating achieving graduates additionally two of our goals in our three-year uh stretch goal strategic plan are essential night which is to connect and and connect and challenge as well as goal number four support and challenge with that in mind it is a true privilege to honor the um our 2024 2025 uh Bud cross country team their um and their family members and BD coaches for showing the results of creating a healthy inspiring and motivating role models for our school and community on behalf of the B Unified School District governing board bu staff and the superintendent it is with great pride to recognize the members of the team with a him award for sitting the new standard by winning the first place in Regional while valuing education and extracurricular activities the 2024 2025 cross country team demonstrated the power of commitment leadership resulting in what our Bud Mission stands for thank you thank you for being brave thank you for being bold thank you for being B USD the following students please come forward and also the coaches um but also I want to expr extend my appreciation to all of the families for being flexible for inspiring your children and supporting your children in the these extracurricular activities okay Miss Jasmine hendris [Applause] sah Anton Kyla Dolores qua Toro Malia Johnson Henry coni Nicholas Naro Dania Miguel Noah sugundo [Applause] Ezekiel hendris Mariano Francisco Cade wildner yuah Lewis Kyler baptisto Juan Martin Angel Martin Martinez Draven Leonard Jensen Pablo Gino [Applause] hendris and the coaches are Mr Joseph me and Miss Susie [Applause] Garcia and Miss Jessica Ortega sorry who placed 87th at state or 86th you missed the name on your okay I need to add it did he miss anyone else did he miss anyone else did he miss anyone else no and everybody else that is not here so make sure you give him one all right thank you everybody number one for you guys number Oneal congratulations h i was lot because they earned it you're welcome to stay it's Gooden seen Kimberly glad she start at working with you guys okay continue with this evening's agenda uh we'll move on to number four which is our barbecue of high school dist governing board financial report from Miss Clementina car Miss Miss Carla sorry that's my fault I apolog sorry good evening president bendia governing board members superintendent Diaz and everybody that's in here um let's see I hope you had an opportunity to look over the student auxiliary and Student Activities balance es the auxil the Student Activities and auxiliary advances through October 31st were attached for you to review the Student Activities accounts had deposited deposits totaling $4 4,158 73 in the month of October there were BHS volleball and football concession sales BHS and BMS Club sales at the carnival of Champions event and stale Dent warrants from fiscal year 23 there was one purchase from BHS volleyball for meals totaling $281 and the ending balance for the Student Activity account on October 31st was $13 $3,497 181 can you make it smaller Aon please and then for the student auxiliary refund there were deposits totaling $3,717 from BHS volleyball and football Admissions and Indian oas's Elementary School for the fall Scholastic Book Fair sales there was one dispersement of $525 from BHS entry fees to cross country the ending balance for the student auxiliary account on October 31st was $534 31 are there any questions questions from the the board on the student and Club student Club activities thank you Miss Carlo good and then um we had our first uh financials uh for October for fiscal year 25 um we're still working on reconciling with Pima County there's still a little bit of variances from prior years but we're also using our auditing consultant to help clear a lot of that up but you can see a lot of the highlights are Grant related and we're still waiting for um the information to come down from ad so I hope you had an opportunity to see that um there are negative budget balances but only because the budget balances the budget hasn't been input or like again we haven't finalized the numbers from ad um they're all currently in revision due to the carry forward information being verified by ad overall 55 5.77% of the budget for All funds were expended and and encumbered leaving a budget balance of 4423 per.